[ It's just like the devil to be so connivingly convincing. It's just like the devil to promise that eternal damnation really wasn't damnation at all but salvation. He sells it so well. And it's only those years immersed in religion that causes Walt's reluctance -- that causes him to stop and think, hey, this is supposedly the serpent and he's probably offering the forbidden fruit here. ]

You make it sound like such a simple matter. And for you, it probably is a simple matter to collect men like me. To give them the promise of power as their ticket to changing their lives with only the small oversight of spending eternity in hell.

I don't want eternity. I want the end of everything. Ab...

[ Walt trails off, not really wanting Abduxel to hear his name mentioned in conversation. ]

Matthew mentioned that there is an eventual nothingness for demons like him. So what does a man like me have to do to obtain that? To cease to be?