"A thing of beauty," Duke said, brightening just thinking about it. "It really is too bad it was so wasted on Nathan."

Lucifer may or may not remember that Nathan was the name of Duke's police officer ex.

"That she punched a cop?" Or, you know, that she'd punched his ex. "I mean, he did immediately arrest her, so maybe she wasn't too excited about bragging about that part."

Duke chuckled. "Like I said, thing of beauty. Too bad he's also the Chief of Police's son." He shook his head. "She tried kicking him in the nuts too, apparently. That part I didn't get to see."

He'd been too busy freaking out at Gloria over Nathan arresting Octavia. Also, cleaning up after the animated action figure attack.

"The man literally can't feel anything. It was definitely a wasted effort." Duke sighed. "Still would've been something to see, though."

"And how," Duke said. "Especially since the only reason she punched him was because he was making his usual ass of himself at me."

Duke laughed. "Yeah man, I know." He'd even managed to say the L word out loud after busting her out of jail. Or -- the H word, technically, since it had been in Trig, but still. This was major progress for Duke. "So how was the Philippines? You spend the entire time in bed, or did you at least take some time to look around?"

"Oh man. I haven't had a good foursome in . . . ages." That was one major drawback to monogamy, right there. "You hit up any of the food carts? That part of the world has some of the best street food."

As a piano player, Lucifer especially had to be careful of such things. There was only so much piano based pop out there, after all!

"Yeah, it's . . . kind of weirdly okay," Duke said. "At least so far. I mean, this is my first real monogamous relationship since, like, high school. My relationship with my wife was pretty much entirely based on orgies." A shrug. "You know, and crime."

Duke and Evi were all class, really.

"You're sad a couple hot pieces of ass like me and Tavi have been taken off the menu?" Duke asked with a smirk.

"That is . . . a hell of a way to live forever," Duke said, grinning. "I'm sure Octavia's managed to leave her own impression on you, though."

"But I'm guessing there's a lot of competition," Duke said. "So I guess I'm glad to hear I rank."

"I don't think I've been on a water slide since I was like --" Duke paused, frowning as he thought back. "-- possibly ever." They didn't have a lot of them in Haven, and he hadn't really made them a priority once he got out into the wider world. "But yeah, I've seen plenty of bats. That guano ends up everywhere."

"Because tourists are impressed by the stupidest things," Duke said. "Seriously, man, when I was a kid I used to make extra cash by giving tours of the sea caves back home. They're literally just large, smelly holes in rocks, but people went ape over them." He smiled. "Especially when you tell them they were frequented by, like, pirates and bootleggers and shit."

Some of them probably even were. But all Duke knew as a kid was that they were large, smelly holes in rocks.