"I don't doubt that," he says, "but the mind can be a different battleground entirely."

He knows that too well, but he thinks they might have the mental fortification. He hopes they do, anyway. Lucifer's own lock-tight mind has been bolstered from when he wasn't even willing to trust using the Horizon to communicate and linked his mind with Istredd's. Though there were sometimes some.......... drawbacks to that.

Lucifer blinks. It... makes sense for the Nether to be spread out to an extent. That's how he got the flute he was playing, he snagged the curio from the wandering entertainer that had come to Thorne.

But... oddballs are one thing. Having individuals out to the other nations that Aster could also trust that word would get back to them...

Well.

"That's..." A breath. "Honestly the best news I feel like I've gotten in awhile."

Lucifer may be a chaotic entity but subtlety is second nature to him. Third nature? Whatever. If he sends out word to reach Aster, then something is about to go very, very wrong in Thorne and likely will have spillover problems to other areas.