"Not if we leave now," Skulduggery agreed. "But our situation's changed before. It could easily change again. People like Eshai and Evastelei knew precisely how to bring us here; we might come across someone who knows how to get us home with everything intact."

Skulduggery didn't hold out any hope that it would help him, of course; not unless the same magic could return him to a physical location other than where he was pulled from. Still, it was something to look forward to, if only for imagining how many of the other Foreigners it would benefit.