Humans are clever, certainly, neat and once wonderful. But 'brilliant' would never be a term he would use to describe them, 'brilliant' came from 'bright' - and 'bright' would always and forever be Lucifer. And he couldn't say they were important - God thought so, and Raphael had loved them dearly once, still did just not as much.

And even if God was right, and humans were just as important as The Host, that didn't mean they were the same or that Raphael ever wanted to be one.

"Better to not lose the time." The bottle crunches slightly, plastic bending, and he manages to force it into his pocket. He doesn't plan on drawing it - but there might be monsters. Crowley was down here. Who knew what else.