[The wan smile on Nick's face dropped away and Lucifer cast a brief, dark glance upward.]

Because you've already said "Yes". Unfortunately, someone decided to send me to our little sandbox city as I left Nick.

[Lucifer looked back at Sam and the bleak landscape of this new sandbox. If there was something to be learned, he hadn't discovered the message.]

The timing was deeply, deeply inconvenient, but hardly surprising. It isn't the first time God has intervened on your behalf.