"Believe it or not," Skulduggery said, "I would have as well. But she pointed out, quite rightly, that she had the right to know certain things if she was going to be learning from you, and I didn't realise until later that you weren't already teaching her. What you thought about your own Temple's beliefs was a natural tangent from there. I told her the truth, of course."

This strange new association the pair of them had developed was still in its early stages, and Skulduggery knew better than to try testing the waters so soon. But if Wreath thought Skulduggery would seek him out for permission before warning a teenage girl about what she was getting herself into, he had another thing coming.