"Okay," he agrees, his grin growing. "Kyle doesn't need more reasons to worry."

Returning to the path, Wilhelm leads River back to the carriage house, where the delivery bikes have a corner allotted to them. It's a short trek, and he lets it settle into companionable quiet. He points out some of the flowers to her, passes on their names which he has learned from Lucifer — see, you can tell because of how the petals curl up.

He doesn't know anymore if he remembers this from his real life, hours spent crouched down in the dirt with Lucifer while the archangel carried out his punishment-turned-hobby — or from that other life, in which Lucifer raised a paradise from the once dying Nether.

Once the bike is stowed, he turns to River.

"So where is this surprise you want to show me?"