(And wouldn't that answer, to such an unasked question, be one for the playbooks.)


Somewhere there's a question of why she's still humoring this. Or maybe there will be later. (Maybe it's half-humor, half-baiting; knowing there's a dangerous caprice to Lucifer's emotions, patience, whims—shown here several times already—and what he does with the knowledge he both has-and-does-not-have could involve Jack.)

But she's not thinking hard on that when it's all too easy just to let the response to those words, still, half hitched back, roll out with no pause and the continued, unphased quirk of that eyebrow with deigned interest. "Which is to say, which exactly?"

"I should bother them because they'll love that fact, unlike you,

or they'll love me because they'll love the fact that you find me maddening?"