"There were some conversations we hadn't had that we should have, a long time ago," Lucifer said. "In part his fault for... not raising them again. In part mine, as he didn't know how important it was to me."

He sipped his coffee thoughtfully.

"We're not there yet, wherever 'there' is," he said. "But I believe at least the hurt feelings have fallen from our eyes, which makes it much easier to find each other."