A sadist. That had been Wreath's sentiment back then, as well. Skulduggery had tried asking back then, and gotten the same sort of curt replies for his trouble. Eventually, he stopped pursuing it. With Wreath so eminently shut down, there hadn't been a point to finding out who the so-called 'sadist' was.

Now, suddenly, it mattered more than almost anything else.

"The sadist," he said after a short silence. "What do you remember about him?"