Your life should always be your own, he wants to say, and it's annoying, annoying that it can't be, annoyed that Kell's so held up by family or whatever is there, that maybe it's guilt for running, maybe it's overwhelming--useless duty. When has duty ever done any of them any good.

"Can I ask you something?"

He's not really looking for permission, because he's going to ask anyway.

"When Kyle and I found you in the woods..." When Kell found them, but, semantics. He knows even bringing this up when Lucifer was so against explaining what Kell walked in on is risky. He's picking at something though, so he'll have to. "You turned white as the snow around us when Kyle mentioned Rhy needing you. Why?" Was it related to the story Kell just told him or something else?