Valdis blinked. From her conversation with Jacen at the masquerade, his brother was alive, and here. Unless of course the two of them came from different times, just like some she had known had. The large black hound tipped her head, eyes curious.

You mourn one who lives now, she replied, Do you not care to see to the present? Or are you simply going to dwell on the past and future.

Skulduggery, Erskine and Anton had been able to see the present, and perhaps that's all that mattered, even if Anton was now dead.