He'd suspected, but there was still something very satisfying about having one's suspicions confirmed. It paved the way for a conversation, and it would hopefully teach Skulduggery something new about the plethora of alternate dimensions which apparently existed. Besides, it ruled out the possibility of anything else moving around in or manipulating the mist, and in a place like a forest that was stuck in eternal darkness, being properly alone was a good thing.

"Manipulate," he corrected. Wan's phrasing was enough to tell Skulduggery that the way each of their powers worked was very different. "I can influence them, not control them. I can't, for example, summon water where there isn't any."

It was just that water existed practically everywhere in some form or other. And that was a fact which most Elementals in Skulduggery's world tended to forget.