He ignored the flinch. The child would have to become accustom to displays of comfort and affection eventually, it'd be better if it started now.

"For all of their strangeness and fragility they are quite knowledgeable about some things and are quite durable when it counts,” he said recalling the failed Apocalypse and the three children that had taken on three f the four Horsemen. “Humans are the reason this planet still exist as it is. Neither a place of incomprehensible goodness and light or a place of unrelenting evil and darkness.” Asmodeus sighed in an indifferent manner. “I worry about this world sometimes. Master could not punish the AntiChrist for not bringing about Armageddon, as was his purpose. A semi-demonic being that is allowed to go unchecked could get cocky.”