Crowley would have given his opinion whether it was solicited or not.
"We don't know what the Morningstar knows," he said, beginning to fall into habits of explanation and rationalization that he'd made with Aziraphale a millennia prior with the adoption of the Arrangement. "I think if he suspected something between the two of you, he would have mentioned it when he... gave me my new assignment." There, that sounded professional and not at all gory. "Unless, of course, he's testing me." Crowley wasn't being paranoid. He was simply thinking in knots the way he had to in order to survive. "But waylaid is fine. No one would doubt that in a fight with an archangel, I'd get my arse handed to me. That doesn't explain why I followed you for three days first, though."
The demon was silent a moment as he parsed a thought. "What if you lured me out here with the promise of information on Belial, stopping in those other cities to make it look believable? Then, once I was outside of Adam's protection, you made your move. You get to look clever to whomever you report to for whatever reason you want and I look foolish rather than treasonous. I can't look too stupid or I'll lose this job, but being underestimated is always an advantage..." Which was possibly a technique he was using at that very moment. The life of a long-term double agent is a complex one, but in the end his loyalties lay with, well, Crowley.
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"We don't know what the Morningstar knows," he said, beginning to fall into habits of explanation and rationalization that he'd made with Aziraphale a millennia prior with the adoption of the Arrangement. "I think if he suspected something between the two of you, he would have mentioned it when he... gave me my new assignment." There, that sounded professional and not at all gory. "Unless, of course, he's testing me." Crowley wasn't being paranoid. He was simply thinking in knots the way he had to in order to survive. "But waylaid is fine. No one would doubt that in a fight with an archangel, I'd get my arse handed to me. That doesn't explain why I followed you for three days first, though."
The demon was silent a moment as he parsed a thought. "What if you lured me out here with the promise of information on Belial, stopping in those other cities to make it look believable? Then, once I was outside of Adam's protection, you made your move. You get to look clever to whomever you report to for whatever reason you want and I look foolish rather than treasonous. I can't look too stupid or I'll lose this job, but being underestimated is always an advantage..." Which was possibly a technique he was using at that very moment. The life of a long-term double agent is a complex one, but in the end his loyalties lay with, well, Crowley.