"I see. That makes sense. Our kind does not last very long, not with those that want us gone. Not that I think it didn't have some consequences of its own. Every situation has that setback."

She'd seen enough to know that anyway. As for him, he would hold onto what he wanted. She wasn't going to probe deeper.

"I am Alessa," the girl demon replied, and she gave him a patronizing stare, "And you are Dean Winchester. Why are you lying to me?"