Azrael smiled at all of them. "Thank you very much, all of you," he said. "I've felt terrible keeping her inside so much, but there was an...incident a while back. Satan was involved. So this way seemed safer. But I hated keeping you away from people," he said, turning to Svetlana. "It's mostly just been me for company, I can't imagine that's all that invigorating."
"Well we're about as invigorating as it gets," Roxanna laughed. "And we like meeting new people and more less adopting them. Hell, that's how I wound up here, Lena pretty much scooped me up and installed me here."
"And it's been mayhem ever since," Jamie joked, ducking her tossed napkin.