Gray was acutely aware that if he had not been kidnapped by an asshole, he would probably have grown up to be a monster. It was something he and Castor, who had also loved his father, had talked about sometimes, after they had been exposed to what was really going on and come down on the side of humanity.

Alastair, who had been raised by his father and Lucifer until Lazarus took him, never shared his thoughts, but Alastair never shared his thoughts about a lot of things. It probably said a lot that Alastair had not hesitated for a second to kill Azazel when he got the chance.

"Yeah, this got kind of heavy, didn't it?" Gray asked rhetorically. "I think that's pretty much it? You already know about me and Ray, and, well, there's no way to prepare you for Krave except to go there. There's really nowhere else like it."