“Not to me, perhaps,” Lucifer says to Aki’s retreating back. He touched a nerve, clearly, and his flippancy is dropped to get in a last word. “But you’ll almost certainly have to explain it to someone here, sooner or later.”

Possibly the most surprising thing about being here, for him, is seeing how few wardens seem to be aware that they’ll have to deal with their own issues if they ever hope to actually help an inmate with theirs.