"Skul's in love with his hat," Gabe told Barney with a small smile. "And you were payin' attention to the traffic just before you chose an object. Doesn't take a cheater. Which I wasn't." He added the last in afterthought, and pointedly, at Skul. Just in case the detective was suspecting he was soul-reading. He hadn't needed to.
Skulduggery's threat only made Gabe laugh, if for no other reason--and it wasn't the only reason--than the fact that the detective was now joking about things he, only two hours earlier, would not have. "Good thing I'm good at declawin' you, then, ain't it?" he shot back teasingly. "I spy something beginnin' with T."
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"Wasn't lurin' enough for ya?" God said with a broad grin and a chuckle at His own pun. "Gotta say, I'm lookin' forward to meeting Skul." As if there was never any doubt that, at some point or another, He would.
He gave Ghastly one of those amused 'you're missing something obvious' looks. "Did I forget to speak English, lad? 'Course I mean a bet. What else?"
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Skulduggery's threat only made Gabe laugh, if for no other reason--and it wasn't the only reason--than the fact that the detective was now joking about things he, only two hours earlier, would not have. "Good thing I'm good at declawin' you, then, ain't it?" he shot back teasingly. "I spy something beginnin' with T."
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"Wasn't lurin' enough for ya?" God said with a broad grin and a chuckle at His own pun. "Gotta say, I'm lookin' forward to meeting Skul." As if there was never any doubt that, at some point or another, He would.
He gave Ghastly one of those amused 'you're missing something obvious' looks. "Did I forget to speak English, lad? 'Course I mean a bet. What else?"