This dumb kid shouldn't have gotten beyond all of Lucifer's defenses and yet in Lucifer trying to use and manipulate him and then failing and... everything that followed...

Well.

Here they are.

Wilhelm breached Lucifer's defenses before even Istredd did, and that is the most crowning achievement possible.

"There is an... advantage here that I never had expected," he admits. They are trapped, yes, but Wilhelm isn't wrong that their immaterial barriers are lessened. And then, an aggrieved, put-upon sigh, "And the people in this faction," specifically Thorne, thanks, "don't completely suck."

There is the bare underlining of genuine fondness to those words.

Lucifer has. Become very... attached to many of the Thorne Summoned. Not just Istredd, and Wilhelm, and Kell, though they are the prime factors.