Ghastly froze. "So have I. If it's all the same to you," he said carefully, looking anywhere but at Skulduggery, "I'm not getting involved in this particular argument."

Everyone knew what the word was, but even Fletcher had the good sense not to say it out loud. Ghastly had watched his friend live a lifetime of avoiding becoming an outright hypocrite - he would never accuse Skulduggery of being one, no matter how much he might agree with Gabriel about what it sounded like. Besides, Ghastly didn't know enough about what had happened to judge anything for himself. He was no hypocrite either.

"But it all turned out okay, didn't it?" Tanith asked with a frown. "You obviously both survived."