"Now look, he provoked me," Loki explained. "And it's safer for Uriel and the baby, if everybody knows it's a purely angelic baby. Uriel's worried about that. Says the other not-gods might come after her and the little one. You wouldn't want a sweet little baby to die, would you?"

He was pretty sure that John wouldn't want any harm to come to the baby, but decided not to mention Crowley's threats to the animals. Most humans he'd learned didn't give a damn about animals.