Moloch had stilled around Cricket, a calm he only found around Aziraphale and occasionally Beelzebub. To feel that around a human is new but not unwelome in the moment.

"Without the darkness we cannot know the light." Moloch repeated the commonly spoken adage. "Pain and sorrow are the darkness to comfort and happiness."

He's well aware of how those things partner in a cycle, necessary even if he has never really felt happiness.

"Many of the fallen live to spite God." Moloch let out a quiet, cold laugh that caused his teeth to click. "There's an abundance of pride in surviving when the universe itself wants you to die."