"Hello," he replies, the foreign Abydonian language coming off of his borrowed tongue as though it is native. The tone is patient, as it was when Sha're taught Daniel the vowel sounds those years ago, and Lucifer can feel the edges of those memories in Daniel's consciousness.

Daniel's hand is larger than Sha're's and covers it almost completely. Lucifer remembers something from Nick's memories, a gesture from those painful parts of his mind labeled Sarah, and shifts his hand; he twines his fingers through Daniel's, a simulacrum of intimacy.

"You are dreaming, Daniel," he says, and the name comes out strange, altered by the heavy vowels of the Abydonian language-- Dani-yull.