Gabe waited a beat before realising that Skulduggery wasn't going to expand on the answer, which was perfectly fine; but the way he said it made the Archangel wonder if he didn't just because Gabriel hadn't asked directly enough. And he was curious. "Why did you choose it?" he asked, and then added, "If I may know. I have an interest in such things."

Someone had left some beads and twine on the table. Absently Gabriel picked them up and began stringing a rosary, half-formed ideas that Murphy might like one. It took a moment or two for his fingers to adapt, but it was easier to get used to this kind of nimbleness than it was to do so with his whole body. "Only one of them did," he said. "He told me the head doctor unlocks the doors and releases monsters and brainwashed patients into the grounds."