Skulduggery didn't answer. Maybe they'd done the right thing, but that didn't change how he felt about letting somebody injured do most of the work - especially somebody so much more important than any of them could comprehend. In any case, he nodded to Tanith, took Ghastly's mobile, and stepped away to call Valkyrie. A moment later, the two teenagers reappeared beside the Bentley as well.

"See?" Valkyrie grinned upon seeing Ghastly and Tanith unharmed, and wasted no time in gloating. "If you'd done that by yourself, Skulduggery, you'd still be trying to find where they were."

Skulduggery tilted his head. "Probably. But on the other hand, I would have attracted much less attention and wouldn't have told them anything they didn't already know. Guild now knows about Gabriel, and at the very least suspects him of being a Teleporter, if not more." There hadn't been any contact with Ghastly when they disappeared, and that alone would be suspicious enough. Besides, Skulduggery couldn't trust China to stay quiet if she was asked, and the cowboy part being a cover could make things worse.

Fletcher shrugged. "What are they going to think? That we got divine help getting you back? It doesn't matter how suspicious they get, no one's going to look at that," he pointed at Gabriel, "and immediately think Archangel."

"That," Tanith replied with a ripple of amusement, "has a name."