"I know," he says, definitive and concrete. He's known since the very, very beginning, after Istredd told Lucifer that Wilhelm was there, and after Lucifer told him Kell was. It only solidified with Istredd's desperate--as desperate as text can be--message that they were out and that Lucifer needed to get to them.
This was always Fated to be the end result.
It's the only reason Lucifer was on the Search team, not Retrieval. It'd be real pointless to not follow it all through in the end.
But Lucifer is frowning at Kell, likely not the reaction Kell--or either of them--expected. Lucifer has no familiarity with guilt; he will brush it off and play the victim every time. Except. He glances at Kyle, only a flicker, and then focuses back to Kell and steps forward, keeping slow. Less the hunting predator as his slowness had indicated mere moments earlier and now making sure that Kell knows he isn't about to lash out.
"It's not your fault," Lucifer says, in a far softer tone than what should exist from him, especially for someone who had just been literally at Kyle's throat.
"Nothing else was ever going to happen," he continues. "He had one goal from the moment he knew who was in the cave with him. He intended to give himself over to whatever was in there if it got all of you out. He knew it, I knew it, there was no convincing his stubborn ass otherwise."
Not that Lucifer even bothered to try. It wouldn't have mattered. Pushing would have just made Istredd more upset.
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"I know," he says, definitive and concrete. He's known since the very, very beginning, after Istredd told Lucifer that Wilhelm was there, and after Lucifer told him Kell was. It only solidified with Istredd's desperate--as desperate as text can be--message that they were out and that Lucifer needed to get to them.
This was always Fated to be the end result.
It's the only reason Lucifer was on the Search team, not Retrieval. It'd be real pointless to not follow it all through in the end.
But Lucifer is frowning at Kell, likely not the reaction Kell--or either of them--expected. Lucifer has no familiarity with guilt; he will brush it off and play the victim every time. Except. He glances at Kyle, only a flicker, and then focuses back to Kell and steps forward, keeping slow. Less the hunting predator as his slowness had indicated mere moments earlier and now making sure that Kell knows he isn't about to lash out.
"It's not your fault," Lucifer says, in a far softer tone than what should exist from him, especially for someone who had just been literally at Kyle's throat.
"Nothing else was ever going to happen," he continues. "He had one goal from the moment he knew who was in the cave with him. He intended to give himself over to whatever was in there if it got all of you out. He knew it, I knew it, there was no convincing his stubborn ass otherwise."
Not that Lucifer even bothered to try. It wouldn't have mattered. Pushing would have just made Istredd more upset.