With one exception, his words are as mine would have been. I can fight, but what level of desperate must you be to bring us here without even asking?

[The devil is a librarian. This, then, can not be some sort of demon, can not be a monster. And this is a place of such beauty that he can't believe anything evil could inhabit it without beginning to burn up... he can panic later. For now, the high-society manners have to come out.]