Dispater watches with seemingly infinite patience, as they hammer through the contract to something that Pilar no longer wants to make self-fulfilling prophecies about, with Dispater occasionally rejecting some proposed wordings Himself.

They could probably take a year at this and Dispater wouldn't especially notice.

What is to be the disposition of souls Sevar 'owns' while she is not yet herself a devil, let alone a Power of Hell, that could exercise effective ownership of them?

Dispater watches with seemingly infinite patience, as they hammer through the contract to something that Pilar no longer wants to make self-fulfilling prophecies about, with Dispater occasionally rejecting some proposed wordings Himself.

They could probably take a year at this and Dispater wouldn't especially notice.

What is to be the disposition of souls Sevar 'owns' while she is not yet herself a devil, let alone a Power of Hell, that could exercise effective possession of them?