"It’s not love," said Paimon angrily, his voice painfully harsh in an eerie way like the clash of cymbals channelled straight to her brain without any help from her ears. "He doesn’t understand love – he killed his own son in a bid to gain more followers! Worship and offerings strengthen him – there’s power in such things, even from ordinary mortals when there’s enough of them focused together on a single goal. An unfocused single witch on her own has more power than three or more of the most intensely devout ordinary mortals, of course. Worship and offerings strengthen us too – all of us, angel and demon alike. But the Creator wants all of that power only for himself, and himself alone. He is jealous of any others getting offerings. Janus, Moloch, Artemis, Belial, Asherah – they sought followers of their own, and he was furious at them."