"Think you can do better than that. More enthusiasm for that bark next time, promise?" Lucifer snapped his fingers loudly and several demons flinched, all of them turned to look his way. Yet he hadn't used any magic, grace or otherwise, he had just had a thought. Or was faking as if he had just had a thought instead of having planned out Aleister's torment meticulously. "Speaking of barking."

He clicked his tongue, mostly to keep the demons on edge, and leaned forward in his throne again. "There's a particularly vicious hellhound on the premises. It's not letting anyone pass. You got any idea what that's all about?"