It was the wrong hair.
Chapter Sixteen
Lilith
We couldn't stop the spell in the middle without possible repercussions to all of us, so we kept on until the flow of power stopped and it was all inside Lucifer.
He breathed in deep and sighed. "It feels weird, but so much better than not having power at all."
I stared at him as he rolled his head and flexed his muscles. I knew how it felt to have magic suddenly flood where it had been missing. He probably felt like running a mile or climbing a mountain.
But still, he had to realize that wasn't Raphael's magic. "Luc," I said gently. "How do you feel?"
"Like I'm going to sprout breasts. We didn't get the right magic," he said.
I winced.
"Dang it." Gabriel sighed. "I thought it felt weird."
"Me, too," Michael muttered.
Mary looked at us with wide eyes. "Who does it belong to?"
"A female is all I can tell. It feels feminine," he said.
"Darn it. Can you feel if the power is angel, Archangel, or Fallen?" Michael asked.
Lucifer laughed and winced. "Archangel, I think. It's too much power to be a lesser angel, and it's way,waytoo pure to be a Fallen."
I wasn't sure if I liked the idea of him being full of another woman's power, but I chided myself for being silly. It didn't mean anything except we had to find the woman and get her power back.
Lucifer laughed and I felt him blast power outward. "She's pretty strong," he said. "Not as strong as me, but still."
He closed his eyes and focused. I knew he was using the power, but not for what. "What are you doing?" I asked.
"Looking for Raphael," he said. "I don't think he's on Earth."
"How can you search the entire Earth?" I asked. "Especially with lessened powers."
He shrugged. "I don't know. It's just something I can do."
"We need you with powers," Gabriel said. "None of us can do that."
And I knew I was as strong as Lucifer. We all had different abilities. "He's not here," Luc said.
"We didn't really think he was."
"Either this hair wasn't his, or it went to the next closest thing to him when the magic couldn't find him," Lucifer said. "Mary, did it go wrong?"
She studied the spell and shook her head. "No. we did everything right."
"I'm going to go to Heaven and see if anyone is freaking out about missing powers..." Michael twisted his lips. "And if I find her, I'll ask if we can borrow her powers for a little while." He quickly disappeared.
"He's in the other realm. How can we get there?" Lucifer asked.
I sighed and sat down at Mary's table. "We can't."
Michael and Joel appeared. "What have you done now?" Joel asked in exasperation. "Charity is going nuts."
