His thoughts buzz in annoyance at the mention of his fear, but he doesn't deny it. It's a bit silly at this point, especially when all of Thorne had seen Lucifer cracked open in more ways than one. It quickly got to the point where it was just too laughably useless to keep up appearances.

"Don't make that promise. You can't make that promise," Lucifer growls, low in the dark, only the faintest glow from the log Lucifer had carved as a cover to talk to Mat during Luna's Winter Solstice. "You're all so easy to disappear again and," I can't change it.

If he had watched Wilhelm more closely, would it have helped? If he had done more than made him aware something was very wrong and gave him a weapon? Hell, Kell he'd only found out was snatched when Rhy cornered him in the castle hallways. Rhy's distraught unwinding and anger and saying that Kell told Rhy to find him. To trust him. That he'd know what to do.

What a load of crap.