Behind Gabriel's scrutiny of Crowley, he slipped away. He returned with a glass of punch and standing on the periphery of the group. Barnaby may not have wanted to make idle smalltalk with the other demon, but he wasn't going to have his back to him, either. It was like having a wasp in the room: you didn't want it out of your sight.

Instead, catching the last thing Loki had said, "I don't know, they are a subterranean species. I imagine they have the most terrible acrophobia."