"As much as you need," says Skulduggery, "and as quickly as you need it. I put out many of the fires during the explosions, especially in the Water Sector."

Coming from someone else, that might have sounded incredibly arrogant. Coming from Skulduggery, it still sounds incredibly arrogant, but there's a measure of self-awareness in the words which makes it almost charming - endearing, even, in Skulduggery's humble opinion. It helps that the claim is accurate, of course. The only reason he hasn't tried distributing clean water himself yet is a certain unfamiliarity with the task. In the war Skulduggery fought in, there were plenty of Elementals to go around. There was no need to ration water, or to look for someone able to manipulate it if you needed the help.

There's a genuine smile in Skulduggery's tone when he next speaks. "From the air. All I'm doing is condensing the moisture in the air."

Even his relative modesty sounds slightly arrogant, coming right on the heels of his earlier comment.