Just a moment ago, Ghastly had been comparing how Skul and Gabriel both seemed to be naturally disarming. Now he realized something else they had in common: the ability to strike him completely and utterly speechless with a couple of sentences.
"What do you mean?" Valkyrie was asking, haltingly, as if she was still working through it in her head. "We would know, wouldn't we? I mean... the Ancients, they... well, wouldn't they have wiped out the Faceless Ones?"
The silence following her words was absolute. Ghastly couldn't see many expressions from where he was standing, but he imagined they all held some form of shock very similar to his own. Skulduggery, of course, would be mostly stoic, but even he couldn't possibly have thought of this. Maybe that was why they'd all accepted Gabriel as an Archangel so relatively quickly. Ghastly, at least, had been operating off the assumption that Gabriel and his family all came from an entirely different universe. But the Archangel was right; how did they know?
"Skulduggery?" Valkyrie's voice sounded much smaller than before. "Please tell me we would know."
After a long moment where even Ghastly was waiting with bated breath, Skulduggery spoke. "Gabe, are you planning on Him taking you back home? Or is there something else you're not telling us?"
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"What do you mean?" Valkyrie was asking, haltingly, as if she was still working through it in her head. "We would know, wouldn't we? I mean... the Ancients, they... well, wouldn't they have wiped out the Faceless Ones?"
The silence following her words was absolute. Ghastly couldn't see many expressions from where he was standing, but he imagined they all held some form of shock very similar to his own. Skulduggery, of course, would be mostly stoic, but even he couldn't possibly have thought of this. Maybe that was why they'd all accepted Gabriel as an Archangel so relatively quickly. Ghastly, at least, had been operating off the assumption that Gabriel and his family all came from an entirely different universe. But the Archangel was right; how did they know?
"Skulduggery?" Valkyrie's voice sounded much smaller than before. "Please tell me we would know."
After a long moment where even Ghastly was waiting with bated breath, Skulduggery spoke. "Gabe, are you planning on Him taking you back home? Or is there something else you're not telling us?"