"Well, lucky you, I don't think there's currently any other psionics in Thorne that can witness and fall for my beautiful mind and link minds with mine so that I can trust them in general and trust them with my true form," he says blandly.

It is excessively obvious that Lucifer thinks Istredd is being very dumb.

But, he supposes, Istredd was already making that point in his own way.

'You deserved to know someone loved you.'

So it just figures that Istredd throws him a little off-kilter with his words. He's really good at going that, it's not fair.

"Thank you," he says, which is--well, maybe not something you're supposed to say to continued proclamations of love, but, "really, I--thank you."