“Skulduggery?" she called out, relief sweeping through her. "Are you all right?" He didn't answer immediately. Instead, he kept rising, rising straight up out of the sea until he was standing on the waves.
”I’m fine," he said curtly, walking to her. Stephanie had seen such peculiarities over the past few days that she was mildly surprised when anything struck her as odd any more, but Skulduggery walking on water definitely struck her as odd. He bobbed up and down with the waves but kept his balance perfectly, and when he stepped off the water on to the path, the vapour rose from his suit and dropped back into the sea. His clothes, she noticed, were undamaged by the fall.