"He can see souls," Corrival pointed out back with a 'you are not thinking, stupid' lift of his eyebrow. "What makes you think he won't find out, eventually? Maybe he's not as bad as Descry, but you'd better get used to not thinking things so loudly unless you want him to know about it."
"The sky's up, for one," Dexter said. "Also Skulduggery is Lord Vile and I'm in the doghouse for knowing, despite valiantly protecting one of my Elders from a Russian assassin he insisted on confronting. And yes, for the record, people are panicking. Do you know how many times I got stopped on the way up here? Apparently just hanging around with you guys makes people think I have authority."
"That is strange," Corrival said blandly. "And he's not going to get his lungs skewered while he's in my office, because he's not going to leave my office to get them skewered until you get here."
"So I have permission to get my lungs skewered so long as Saracen's chaperoning? Good to know."
"Onto more important matters," Corrival continued without responding in any way to Dexter, "exactly what else do you know about what's been happening here the last few weeks, Rue?"
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"The sky's up, for one," Dexter said. "Also Skulduggery is Lord Vile and I'm in the doghouse for knowing, despite valiantly protecting one of my Elders from a Russian assassin he insisted on confronting. And yes, for the record, people are panicking. Do you know how many times I got stopped on the way up here? Apparently just hanging around with you guys makes people think I have authority."
"That is strange," Corrival said blandly. "And he's not going to get his lungs skewered while he's in my office, because he's not going to leave my office to get them skewered until you get here."
"So I have permission to get my lungs skewered so long as Saracen's chaperoning? Good to know."
"Onto more important matters," Corrival continued without responding in any way to Dexter, "exactly what else do you know about what's been happening here the last few weeks, Rue?"