"You should rest a while," Gabriel said, in lieu of waiting for Crowley to continue; he didn't need gratitude, and the demon didn't seem ready to express it. "It'll have been wearing, the pain, even if it hadn't been healed by other powers."

Again, he expected no agreement, nor even a response. But there was only one subject he wished to discuss with Crowley, and it seemed unfair somehow to bring up Belial while the Serpent still suffered for his sake. So he filled that void with words that he doubted Crowley would appreciate, but hoped the demon would attend to nonetheless.