"Hah! That's a new answer, always fun." River takes the pipe out from between her teeth and turns her head to give Valdis her full attention. "The locals talk about their demons as like...I dunno, pits where virtue goes to die. Intrinsically hostile. The ones I'm used to are more like, I dunno, the shitty younger siblings of us mortals that get away with shit because the gods had their panicked parent phases already."

Far, far away, on another world entirely, a goddess of love starts dying of laughter.