Oh! There are children here? Do you think they'd enjoy a magic show? Not real magic, of course, prestidigitaion! I studied it, you see. It's great fun.

[He brightens right up at the prospect. It couldn't go worse than Warlock's birthday party, surely.

And at the further questions he...maybe just a bit...inwardly deflates. Someone like this should never have to find out what angels are actually like, Gabriel's glib contempt, Michael's judgment. He offers a conspirator's look instead.]

You've hit it on the nose, I fear, state of the world. We rely on good people, now more than ever. I'm sure I don't have to tell you.