A single event, then. Skulduggery's guess hadn't been too far off the mark. He generally tried not to waste his time with sympathy, as sympathy was so seldom useful; but even he could afford a moment of silence at the news.

"That's unfortunate," he said at last. "But it's not the full story. A thousand years is plenty enough time to put such a massacre behind you and move on. Staying as angry as Bakura has for that long? Something's pushing him. A reminder, a man - maybe one of those seven items. I felt something when he got angry, and from the looks of it, so did almost everyone in that café."

Skulduggery didn't mention that whatever he felt might have had something to do with the deaths of the village residents. Wreath would know the implication, and Skulduggery didn't particularly want to think about it.