"With some of them at least. Lives aren't nearly as easy to get back as pieces to a city, so they want to save as many of those first."

Human behavior was never something that was too difficult to understand, that had never quite been the problem for him or most other demons. But trying to actually follow it, when in cases like this it still seemed so meaningless or futile, that was the true dilemma. That was when it began to make no sense.