You misunderstand. I'm not afraid of you.

I said you were a monster, not mindless. Demons are preservationists, as any creature is. Needless collateral damage in an unfamiliar world with unfamiliar limits on your power would not benefit you either. Your kind knows how to lie low until the situation is fully to their advantage.

[ Is that not what Lucien's demon had always done? Rather than just forcing control at all times and revealing himself. ]