As he took a few more steps past the gatekeeper (after telling the guy his name), Soma noticed for the first time the strange, glowing beings wandering around the area. There weren't many of them here, it was true, but just looking at them made Soma shudder.

They were strange, by Soma's standards. A couple of them were bright analogues to demons he'd faced before, while others reminded him of nothing so much as dogs and cats. The one -big- one reminded him a bit of a scorpion, but it was staying away for the moment...

Shunting them to the periphery for the moment, he focused on the demon-slash-man who had first caught his attention. Feeling, perhaps, that such a person could maybe answer some of his questions, he wandered over in Lucifer's general direction.