[Des gets it. Des is, unfortunately, also an uncouth lout who spent a lot of his English-speaking days in the grips of America's worst locales that don't teach their sons and daughters any degree of tact. So when Lucifer gets upset about this clearly grievous of insults, he looks from Azrael and back to him and then says, flatly:]
Well, I've probably had that reaction to a dame a time or two.
[He knows why this is bothersome, but being human, it's a hard concept to wrap his head around. He suspects Lucifer knows this, that all this gnashing and ranting is necessary to understand a stable whole. Right now, however, Des feels he knows where this is leading and wishes it could get there faster.]
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Well, I've probably had that reaction to a dame a time or two.
[He knows why this is bothersome, but being human, it's a hard concept to wrap his head around. He suspects Lucifer knows this, that all this gnashing and ranting is necessary to understand a stable whole. Right now, however, Des feels he knows where this is leading and wishes it could get there faster.]