"Spend enough time topside," Crowley waved a hand. "You start to feel empathy. Rather useless, in the end, but still it's there." He shrugged. Crowley had a lot more weight behind him than he let on, though the King of the Crossroads title put him pretty high on the food chain. He played it off as a political move, and it was to a point.
"You're just pathetic enough right now to bring it out in me," Crowley added, and if his words got under her skin, more's the better.