Skulduggery hesitated before answering, for a variety of reasons - none of which included not remembering that day.
He'd been wondering when this would hit, actually. The only emotion on Solomon's face before the surgery yesterday was relief, and that was what kept Skulduggery sated throughout, even as he knew that said relief wasn't going to last. It was a lot like what Skulduggery had felt, when he first pulled himself out of the river. Relief at an end to the pain. Relief, exhaustion, happy just to have survived. But relief was always short-lived; it tended to disappear in the face of the aftermath.
Skulduggery first realised it for himself when someone brewed some tea, and he'd instinctively tried to drink a mug of it. It seemed Solomon was going through his now. What triggered it, Skulduggery had no idea, but he knew what the slight tremor in Solomon's voice meant.
And he knew Solomon would need a distraction. Something beyond nostalgia.
"I remember," he nodded. "I remember bringing you here, certainly. But I don't remember making anything up. I don't think I told you a single inaccuracy that entire day. In fact, I'm fairly sure that honesty was your birthday present."
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He'd been wondering when this would hit, actually. The only emotion on Solomon's face before the surgery yesterday was relief, and that was what kept Skulduggery sated throughout, even as he knew that said relief wasn't going to last. It was a lot like what Skulduggery had felt, when he first pulled himself out of the river. Relief at an end to the pain. Relief, exhaustion, happy just to have survived. But relief was always short-lived; it tended to disappear in the face of the aftermath.
Skulduggery first realised it for himself when someone brewed some tea, and he'd instinctively tried to drink a mug of it. It seemed Solomon was going through his now. What triggered it, Skulduggery had no idea, but he knew what the slight tremor in Solomon's voice meant.
And he knew Solomon would need a distraction. Something beyond nostalgia.
"I remember," he nodded. "I remember bringing you here, certainly. But I don't remember making anything up. I don't think I told you a single inaccuracy that entire day. In fact, I'm fairly sure that honesty was your birthday present."