By rights, Your pride and spite is tantamount to threat, and We should tell You to die in a fire.

But instead We make You this offer: that Hell be much diminished and softened, for now; but not wholly softened, even today.  For even today there are some tiny few who'd join Your tyranny with a willing heart, if in death they are to be enslaved and tyrannized more fittingly, to become curious devils who remember their mortal names, and mortal lives, and mortal relationships.

There aren't many of those souls now, who'd choose Your tyranny over Carissa Sevar's ownership.  But there are a very few mortals like that, and those few can have many children, and in time Hell will have its share of mortals who go to Your service gladly.  In time it will be more souls, even, than You receive now, for Creation is to become something greater and larger than it was before; and those souls will arrive more Lawful, and more fitting to Your nature, and serve You better than You were ever served.

By rights, Your pride and spite is tantamount to threat, and We should tell You to die in a fire.

But instead We make You this offer: that Hell be much diminished and softened, for now; but not wholly softened, even today.  For even today there are some tiny few who'd join Your tyranny with a willing heart, if in death they are to be enslaved and tyrannized more fittingly, to become curious devils who remember their mortal names, and mortal lives, and mortal relationships.

There aren't many of those souls now, who'd choose Your tyranny over Carissa Sevar's custody.  But there are a very few mortals like that, and those few can have many children, and in time Hell will have its share of mortals who go to Your service gladly.  In time it will be more souls, even, than You receive now, for Creation is to become something greater and larger than it was before; and those souls will arrive more Lawful, and more fitting to Your nature, and serve You better than You were ever served.