"The good doctor could replace it with a laser, if you like." Loken had already been trying to convince her to do just that.

He looks at the demon, and shakes his head. "No. They're... different. Corrupt, but somehow less bad since hey're not perversions of humanity, or... seemingly products of it."

He doesn't elaborate on that, just staring at the erstwhile foe.

"They die readily enough, though."