"The only thing anyone could have done was either knock him out, or kill the bloody infant, or both," Lucifer said. "Which he would have resented, and he would probably run off and get himself even further into Haven's clutches."

He shook his head. "You did what you could," he said. "We just don't have any control here. That's the bloody terror of it, isn't it? It's all in his hands, and he's just happily flushing it down the toilet."