That... [Skulduggery shakes his head, bemused.] ... is a very complicated question.
[What does Kratos hope to glean from this? He can't possibly understand the answer, especially when Skulduggery doesn't understand half of it himself. Still, he does deserve something for being able to ask the question at all, and Skulduggery stops to think for a moment.]
I was killed. ['Killed' probably won't be in the children's thesaurus, so Skulduggery tries to get the meaning across by sliding one finger across the area beneath his skull where his throat should be.] By a man named Nefarian Serpine. [They've technically gone over 'name', but just in case, Skulduggery points to himself, repeats his name, and then indicates the empty space next to him and repeats Serpine's name.
This is certainly the strangest way he's ever had to tell the story.]
After I was dead, Serpine burned -- ah. Fire. [Skulduggery snaps his fingers to bring the flame back up in his hand.] And when I was nothing but bones -- [He peels off one glove and points to a single bone in his arm.] -- a series of things happened that might be too complicated for me to reenact here, the end result of which was me. [He hesitates, then points at the thesaurus.] It's a little like a ghost. G, H. Only not like a ghost at all.
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[What does Kratos hope to glean from this? He can't possibly understand the answer, especially when Skulduggery doesn't understand half of it himself. Still, he does deserve something for being able to ask the question at all, and Skulduggery stops to think for a moment.]
I was killed. ['Killed' probably won't be in the children's thesaurus, so Skulduggery tries to get the meaning across by sliding one finger across the area beneath his skull where his throat should be.] By a man named Nefarian Serpine. [They've technically gone over 'name', but just in case, Skulduggery points to himself, repeats his name, and then indicates the empty space next to him and repeats Serpine's name.
This is certainly the strangest way he's ever had to tell the story.]
After I was dead, Serpine burned -- ah. Fire. [Skulduggery snaps his fingers to bring the flame back up in his hand.] And when I was nothing but bones -- [He peels off one glove and points to a single bone in his arm.] -- a series of things happened that might be too complicated for me to reenact here, the end result of which was me. [He hesitates, then points at the thesaurus.] It's a little like a ghost. G, H. Only not like a ghost at all.