"Tattoos?" Skulduggery might have asked more, but the boy immediately demonstrates, and the body-wide tattoos paint a bit of a clearer picture. The clothes of a monk, thirty-six different forms, and four spiritual schools that teach 'airbending.' But the boy himself can't be any older than thirteen or fourteen. Unless aging works differently in his world, Skulduggery can see him becoming very powerful when he grows up.

"How does the air scooter work?" he asks. Not that Skulduggery ever intends to travel like that, but it might be a way for him to enhance his own control.