Jowan stares for a few moments as well, thrown off just as much by the other man's reaction as the stranger seems to be by him. Honestly, he'd rather like to believe him that he's not a demon and this isn't the Fade and a last minute attempt to possess him, but that would only lead to more confusing questions about where he actually is and what this place is, and demons just makes far more sense.

"Well if you were a demon, you wouldn't outright tell me if you wanted to be sneaky about it, would you?" he pointed out reasonably, trying to sound as though he knew exactly what demons were like. In truth, he'd never met one in the Fade before, just the walking corpses around the place which hadn't been particularly sneaky or talkative.

But from everything he'd learned, demons tried to trick mages into accepting deals with them, and one of the easier ways to do that had to be by pretending not to be a demon. It stood to reason, didn't it?