But... wait a minute. He actually was. Skulduggery looked long and hard at the Archangel, but there was no mistaking that... twinkle in his eyes.
Excellent. Then he'd accepted the need for much more discretion, and now they were just haggling over what constituted that discretion. Actually, they weren't even doing that - the very fact that Gabe was jokingly arguing meant he knew exactly what Skulduggery meant, and he was just feigning ignorance to poke some fun at the detective.
"If explaining to a nonmagical mortal how you did whatever it is you did would cause them to run screaming in the other direction, don't do whatever it is you did." Skulduggery was grinning back now. He couldn't help it; the illusory face was sensitive enough, and Gabe's own smile was contagious on top of that. "And I mean 'run screaming in the opposite direction' in the loosest way possible," he added quickly, just in case Gabriel didn't catch the sarcasm. Or pretended not to.
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But... wait a minute. He actually was. Skulduggery looked long and hard at the Archangel, but there was no mistaking that... twinkle in his eyes.
Excellent. Then he'd accepted the need for much more discretion, and now they were just haggling over what constituted that discretion. Actually, they weren't even doing that - the very fact that Gabe was jokingly arguing meant he knew exactly what Skulduggery meant, and he was just feigning ignorance to poke some fun at the detective.
"If explaining to a nonmagical mortal how you did whatever it is you did would cause them to run screaming in the other direction, don't do whatever it is you did." Skulduggery was grinning back now. He couldn't help it; the illusory face was sensitive enough, and Gabe's own smile was contagious on top of that. "And I mean 'run screaming in the opposite direction' in the loosest way possible," he added quickly, just in case Gabriel didn't catch the sarcasm. Or pretended not to.