"You think if we don't make ourselves useful, they're eventually toss us aside? Find other means for us?" It's said as a hypothetical but Lucifer wonders. Lucifer, with his tentative relation with Thorne as it is.

Lucifer wants to take up the blade but how long until it's own of their own on the end of it.

He's too good at his job for that to be anything but sour.

"You're getting better. You don't have to excel at everything." He tilts his attention back to Istredd, and it's--warm, "Having you here is enough."