"Aha. Well, I'd suggest watching that fight from a very safe vantage point," he murmured, tapping the stack of bestsellers and new arrivals. He was calmer about Michael's arrival than he thought. Perhaps he had been too surprised by the whole business to be scared.

He looked up at Aziraphale's grimace. "I'm not exactly high enough in the social ladder to know Beelzebub's business," he said bluntly, "let alone counsel it."