"No, it doesn't," Skulduggery disagreed. "Dropping your human form would very much cause people to run screaming in the opposite direction. Don't do it. People are fragile." That would have to be one of the few exceptions, unfortunately, no matter how much energy keeping up the illusion of normalcy took. At least the disguise didn't seem to be causing Gabe constant pain.

Worship wasn't a subject Skulduggery was going to touch - especially since Gabriel knew exactly what he meant - but Skulduggery's own disguise was a very good point. It had been undeniably useful, despite how new and uncomfortable it tended to get, and the illusion would no doubt be useful again. Asking Gabe to pull it back up every time Skulduggery needed it was hypocritical, and just asking for trouble.

"Let's stay away from sigils from now on," Skulduggery decided with a brief shake of his head. "I'll just have to suffer through looking incredibly handsome and drawing stares everywhere I go. I've done it before. I can't imagine it'll be any harder this time."