It was exactly the reaction Skulduggery was expecting. Exactly the sort of honour-bound loyalty Wreath had in spades, and was able to ignore if the moral implications became too inconvenient. It was all Skulduggery could do not to laugh in return, and even then, he couldn't quite supress a chuckle.

"You're right," he eventually said. "I didn't give him the opportunity to forgive his murderer. I had a coffee with him recently in order to apologise for that. We got to talking, and he mentioned something called Kul Elna."

Skulduggery tilted his head, watching Wreath's reaction as much as waiting for a response. "Kul Elna happened, he said, and because of it, ma'at is broken and an unspecified group of people are in trouble. He told me to ask you for the details. Talking about it didn't make him happy."