Lucifer teleported right into his throne room, where multiple lower-ranking demons were huddled in groups, as if expecting Lucifer's arrival.
They all bowed as soon as Lucifer appeared.
"Your Majesty," Elaina, a woman Lucifer had assigned to oversee the new demons with their tasks, greeted once she stood again. The latest human vessel she had inhabited before returning to Hell was a young girl's, whose dress had splatters of blood—clues about how the child had died.
Lucifer had made it clear when he first started to reshape Hell that demons would only be allowed to possess a human body if the human had made a deal with the demons or Lucifer, and only when the human had died and their soul vacated the body.
Physically, Elaina looked like a child speaking to Lucifer, but Lucifer could s
