He's briefly distracted, turning, looking out towards something like he thinks he missed it, but shakes away whatever it was, nothing there, and focuses on laughing instead, Oh, the books are innocent, are they? I'm guessing your world wasn't about book banning then.

Istredd is not going to want to know those details.

"I don't suppose you take IOU's," Lucifer says to the woman as he passes and the look she gives him says it all. What? He had to ask, see who he has to deal with here? Joked about you dating the Singularity but maybe it's bookstores that should be the real concern.