Yeah. The love of a guardian is close, but... this wasn't that. It was romantic.

We didn't mind. Lilith was really happy. Really, really happy.

[He wonders, so often, if they'd stepped in earlier... if they could have prevented too much of an escalation.]

But humans don't live forever. This one didn't either. They got sick. And Lilith... she didn't want to see them die. So she snuck food from the Celestial Realm down to them to help heal them. She interfered.

Father wouldn't allow for that.