"No." Skulduggery paused, staring off into space for a second, and then turned back towards Gabe with a carefully neutral expression and, just in case, carefully neutral thought process as well. "Finbar sounded very sure about angels playing a major role in the near future. With Raphael and Merlin from your universe definitely on their way here, I think it's safe to work off the assumption that the Lucifer from those visions is also the one from your universe. We need to talk, Gabe, for two reasons. First, we're going to need a way to stop him, and you have more experience in that area than I do."

Skulduggery hadn't even told the others about that part of their visit with Finbar yet. The idea of Lucifer existing anywhere had rattled them enough, and until Skulduggery could give them more than empty words of reassurance, he didn't really relish the idea of telling them Satan might come here - or, for all they knew, already was.

"And on a more selfish note," he continued after a beat, "I'm honestly curious about how you justify all this risk. I'm one person. A very impressive person, I will admit, but nonetheless. One person. No one person is worth the risk of an entire alternate universe being overrun."