The hour passed uneventfully, and Skulduggery stirred feeling much more refreshed than he had before he started. He didn't expect that feeling to last long, but he certainly didn't expect it to break the moment he realised there was someone else on the fountain rim watching him.

She looked just different enough to be a kedan. But then again, Skulduggery had met a Foreigner who looked like a cat. In his experience, most of the kedan didn't have the patience or the time to sit for an hour doing nothing, so Skulduggery was erring on the side of Foreigner. Probably from a world very different to his own.

He tilted his head. "Can I help you?"