Bane obviously loved the attention. Lee is always amused by what an attention hog his little dog can be, but then, he likes the attention from her himself, so he can't complain.
The more Valery talked and explained, the more he felt his heart break. Her mother had abandoned her, it sounded like, and her father had died, probably recently, and her stepmother was sad and there was a new baby.
"I don't think there are any angels in there," he told her kindly. "I was just there and I think I would have noticed."
How to tell the little girl she wouldn't see her Daddy again, that he couldn't come back to her and 'Miss Hestia'? He daren't point above him and say angels were up there ... next time the girl might find a broom and get herself hurt.
"Angels don't live where people can find them. Sometimes you can feel them watching you, but you can't find them when you look. If your daddy is an angel, I bet he's watching after you, but I don't think you'll find him."
Nimue's bad hair day, he felt like a scab for telling that to a child.