Yeah, he knows he's making himself worse, but he can't—he can't do anything about it, which is always the fucking problem, now that he puts it like that. He chokes on a despairing laugh.

"Demon. Cool. Obviously." Breathe. In and out. Why is it that he can kill upwards of a hundred people but breathing is too much to ask? "Are you a new..." Pause for breath, fuck, this is stupid— "...new hallucination?"

Like. He doesn't know. There's another demon here already, and he can't even say whether this guy or Phoenix looks weirder. But he's been seeing a lot of weird shit that's not real, too.