Pepper laughs; she can't help it. This is ridiculous and shocking and weird just like everything else, and in some way it's also upsetting but Skulduggery remains, as ever, clever and amusing.

"Right, right. Well, uh, you look- looked... alive," she finishes numbly and let's his arm go.

"This is really weird. It's weird, right? You must feel weird, I mean, you've been a skeleton for how long now? What's like to actually breathe and wow you must be getting to know gravity in a brand new way and oh man, eating! We need to get you chocolate," Pepper concludes.