"What you remember is immaterial. The things that you have been through have left marks on you that are more than just physical, Daniel."

The sensitivity and enhanced perception, for one thing. Whatever process it is that takes a human and makes them ascend, it fundamentally changes that person in some fashion. Lucifer knows a thing or two about the fundamental alteration of humans, and here is a wholly different specimen for him to look at.

Small, vocal creatures also sometimes get put in cages rather than trod on.