He gives a little huff that might be a laugh, choked and dry, almost silent. "Yeah."

Another swallow of ginger ale.

"Kali asked it some more things after that, I'm trying to remember what.... Um, 'do you serve the Morningstar,' that was one of them. And whether it was running away. And it was like ... more scared of him than anything else. Except maybe going back to Hell, I think it was more scared of that."