Hey, Istredd knows his audience. The truth is that for all his serious logic, Istredd is unfortunately a very sentimental person, he just only has it internally and unshared. He knows better than to suck other people into it. Especially the two people he cares about the most.

On both of our backs. I doubt I'm the only one they would take in. Lucifer standing behind him looking foreboding didn't help that situation, it is clear the two of them are a unit these days. I am confident about this group. There may have been more loyalists in the past, but not now. Yenna would have warned him. She was mad at him sending Lucifer after her, but that hasn't changed what they share with each other.

Did you look at Natasha's notes yet? There are a lot of details in there, it was surprising. Not because of her, but she is new to Thorne and yet gathered a great deal all at once.