"There's no going back for me," Charity assured Lucifer. "I cursed the Ineffable Name and His glorious light burned everything away."
But the dead space inside, that hellfire could fill it, could make her a whole thing, a better thing than she had once been. She pressed hard against him, standing on her toes to press her lips to his ear and whisper: "I'm a hollow thing now, with bird-bones and empty spaces." Her tongue flicked across the edge of his ear. "Fill me with hellfire."