"Yeah," he mumbles. "Anyway ... I think somebody called for a break around then? To talk it over outside. And I told them I got the demon's name so if we wanted to, we could Bind it to something, instead of exorcising it. Like, to a new body, even. So ... so we could still offer it something it wanted, if it would get out of Nita without hurting her."

He hesitates, and swirls the ice around in his glass for a moment.

"They didn't go for it. Said we should just destroy it."