"When the devil goes aloof of Hell, I shall sit on his throne," he grinned as if a new devil, when he frankly have always been one.

"Eternal flames shall dance below me, the demons will cower before me, the souls of the doomed shall cry my name for all eternity!"

He cackled like he'd even tame the serpentine beast. But she discerned this cackling crackpot as a juvenile canine chuckling at its mischievous scheme.

"Sleep before the stars die out, you're dissipating your chance to tame the underworld." she commanded.

"I should do it in my dreams, you say?" he demanded it clarified, but she was as silent as the night.

He can very much comprehend that he may not tame a biblical beast, but he can tame the silence with his thoughts of echt devotion

Your beauty eclipsed even Lucifer, the most beautiful of angels. I might have abducted Psyche from Eros. I am then fortunate that you prefered a man so mundane over a god.