"The charismatic part is 'allegedly' how I tempt people to sin," he says easily, and Istredd will be able to hear the eyebrow-wiggle in his tone of voice. Feel it. Hell, embody it. But 'we're all lonely people made less lonely' is so incredibly accurate. He'd add it to a Thorne Summoned requirement because maybe it'd make them more likely to be compliant, easy to make them into followers.

A rare show of optimism from Lucifer would have him thinking that maybe the group of them backfired on Thorne.

I know. There is, generally speaking, no question to when Lucifer actually wants to be alone. He doesn't close off, doesn't even just up and disappear. They can't do that. Can barely get up in the middle of the night without a tap to an arm.

Wake up one night to some idiot being under his bed...

Lucifer's just ends up... absent, with the kind of mental head-nudge to indicate that he's not kidnapped or Missing-in-Action.

He grins into his work. "It would've been quite the experience. But we'll get you a bath," he says, sounding a little forlorn at the prospect, "eventually."