Skulduggery hesitated. "Are we really going to base our entire defense plan around the possibility that he might get lost?"
No, that didn't really cover it. "Lucifer? Satan, the Devil, the master of making other people lose their way, an infamous unhealthy hatred of everything related to Heaven, including you? Lost?"
Maybe Skulduggery didn't understand the 'river' between worlds as well as Gabe did, but if Gabe could make it - hell, if more than one Archangel could make it - Skulduggery didn't see Lucifer giving up. And if Finbar's visions were accurate, he didn't. Or wouldn't.
Maybe he should stop even thinking the word 'hell.'
One moment soon - maybe in a few hours or so - the seriousness of the situation was going to suddenly hit, and it was going to crowd out every thought that came before it. Exactly the same way it did when the significance of Gabe's identity hit Skulduggery back at Landel's. This was Satan they were talking about, after all. Maybe it was because of Gabriel, or maybe it was some sort of defense mechanism, but Skulduggery was actively blocking out the emotional realisation for now. It would only get in the way. The result was a kind of out-of-body experience where everything unfolding before him sounded much too fantastic to be real.
Valkyrie had said before that a living skeleton shouldn't be such a skeptic. Skulduggery was looking forward to seeing how she took this.
no subject
No, that didn't really cover it. "Lucifer? Satan, the Devil, the master of making other people lose their way, an infamous unhealthy hatred of everything related to Heaven, including you? Lost?"
Maybe Skulduggery didn't understand the 'river' between worlds as well as Gabe did, but if Gabe could make it - hell, if more than one Archangel could make it - Skulduggery didn't see Lucifer giving up. And if Finbar's visions were accurate, he didn't. Or wouldn't.
Maybe he should stop even thinking the word 'hell.'
One moment soon - maybe in a few hours or so - the seriousness of the situation was going to suddenly hit, and it was going to crowd out every thought that came before it. Exactly the same way it did when the significance of Gabe's identity hit Skulduggery back at Landel's. This was Satan they were talking about, after all. Maybe it was because of Gabriel, or maybe it was some sort of defense mechanism, but Skulduggery was actively blocking out the emotional realisation for now. It would only get in the way. The result was a kind of out-of-body experience where everything unfolding before him sounded much too fantastic to be real.
Valkyrie had said before that a living skeleton shouldn't be such a skeptic. Skulduggery was looking forward to seeing how she took this.