"We talk to him," Eric said to John, glancing at him over his shoulder. "If that doesn't work, then we hurt him. Severely."

"Rose is a...friend," he said as they hurried down the stairs. "She was in the room we just left. And no, she's not in Wonderland. She's asleep." Wonderland might have been better, though this place was an awful lot like Wonderland, wasn't it?

The group hurried through the house, finally finding Lucifer laying quite conspicuously on a bench. Eric couldn't decide if his 'hiding' place was particularly clever or idiotic.