"I'd honestly thought he was dead. Or back in--" Well, Hell. Lukas was a demon, from the Underworld. But that was a whole other story. "Back where he was from, with me havin' no way to know. Instead he shows up here, 'n just fades away. For all I know, he really was dead. Crystallis works in mysterious fuckin' ways."

Johnny rested his own head against Reno's.

"There're a lotta people I want to see again, but I hope it ain't while on this planet."