"Frankly," said Solomon, "yes. Even if my memories of our past association are a touch off, you never did anything without motives--plural. Maybe you do want some intelligent conversation--but you know enough people here that you wouldn't go to either myself or Bakura to get it unless you had another reason."

It just wasn't how Skulduggery worked. He had too much in his mind to actually do things for such simple reasons, and there were too many factors with regard to people to boil it all down to that one simplistic description.