His confirmation was interesting, but it didn't explain everything she had seen and felt. He had power over death just as she did, his words indicated that he had killed in such a manner multiple times. The amount of death on him could have been akin to how she might feel to her kin, but she had had thousands of years to kill, whereas he had only had five. He possessed massive amounts of magic and was obviously, at some point, just as unstable.

"No," She replied sharply, "He is only a part of what you are, because if you and he were the same, then we wouldn't be having this conversation." Just as she wasn't just the Void, Skulduggery wasn't just the man in armor, if they were, then they wouldn't have people who cared about them.

"Someone told me recently that we are not just our past or present, but the sum of both. You may have once been a mass murderer, but you obviously aren't anymore, and the fact that you call it a mistake tells me that you feel regret over it now. So what changed? How did you go from a mass killer to an annoyingly observant skeleton?"