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‘Kharon. My friend.’ Lucifer beseeched flew up to the demon again. ‘How did you ever get the absurd idea to bring the witch in hell? I’d not have told anything if she were a human! But the witch, Kharon… You’ve almost made a fatal mistake!’
‘Why?’ Kharon worried. ‘You told she’s not a threat.’
‘On the earth.’ The Lord’s voice sank almost to an ominous whisper. ‘On the earth no witch is threat for us. On the earth.’ Lucifer rolled his eyes, deeply inhaled and exhaled, having stared at Kharon’s scared face.
‘What’s the threat from her being here?’ Kharon asked almost in his mind.
‘First, your blindness with her in bed.’ Lucifer intently looked at the demon’s eyes. ‘Come on, turn on your logic, my friend. What usually happens? You take all energies from a woman. Totally. Do you? Do I recall right?’
‘Yes, you do.’
‘How are you feeling now?’ Lucifer frowned and glanced at Kharon being in puzzle.
‘At least strange.’ Kharon told the truth more than ever.
‘What strange?’
‘I am not feeling that strength which I usually get from Vic in bed…’
‘So,’ for a moment The Lord’s face was distorted with a slight smile.
‘I think I’m tired.’
‘You know why?’
‘No.’
‘Victoria can’t give away her energy at our home.’ Lucifer sat to the table, nervously touching the glass. ‘She’s alive. Do you understand? She’s not a demon neither a spirit not a deuce! She’s a human! Her energy stays with her. This alone wouldn’t have been a problem, if only she weren’t a witch. Witches have a great ability to accumulate. Do you know what it means?’
Kharon shook his head realizing all sudden interest and perfectly reasonable anger of his Lord.
‘Witches accumulate energies. Being with you in your bed where she emitted a colossal amount of energy, that was she who devoured it, not you!’
A zap broke through Kharon.
‘So,’ he quickly came up to Lucifer, ‘you wanna say that she kept her energy and took mine?!’
‘I don’t wanna say I’m already saying it!’ The Lord clasped him hard around the shoulder and grinned. ‘And now she’s much more powerful. Here is my bad too I must have told you and interfered, done anything but instead I silently watched… Inexcusable error!’
‘The witch with demonic energy…’ Kharon whispered.
‘Yes, my friend, it even sounds terrible! It’s an obvious fact but I’d better say it: in the morning Victoria won’t be paralyzed and lifeless as you used to see her; with your energy she has so much power that it will be enough for a long time.’
‘I’m sorry, Lucifer.’
‘Don’t be. My bad is much more than yours. Accept my advice for future – don’t bring every Dick and Jane to home, especially when it goes about witches. If I were you, I would go home and ty to use up all the energy she has now.’
‘But,’ Kharon took a step.
‘Go, my friend, and I hope your own energy doesn’t harm you!’
‘Lucifer! You have to answer me!’
‘Later.’ The lord, tired, gave the air.
‘No. Not then and later.’ Kharon careful grabbed his Lord’s wrist and with the entreaty in his eyes looked at him. ‘Now. Answer me now.’
Lucifer silently looked at his friend with soulful eyes. He seemed to understand that Kharon was right and he had no need to delay the answering not to let the situation happen again.
‘What’s your question, please,’ The Lord turned to Kharon. ‘I can’t understand exactly what question you want to be answered. You have a jumble of question in your head.’
‘How does the witch harm me?’
‘Actually, as I told you before she can’t do anything serious, but she can take all your energy. She can devastate you completely.’
‘Are you serious now?’
‘Absolutely I am. I didn’t want to tell you I just couldn’t imagine that you would have been so foolish to bring the witch in hell…’
‘I wonder… Can I make up for the loss if something goes wrong?’
‘Of course, you can! But not at once. And it’s not a good idea to lie paralyzed… Get a second thought before you’re gonna do anything.’
‘I’ve got it, Lucifer. I’ve got it. The only thing I can’t understand is how I can make up for the loss if I were with no moves? To get my energy back I have to move!’
Lucifer smiled, in depth being happy that his friend was still able to think.
‘It’s sixty-four-thousand-dollar question. I have got couples of ways to play. The best one is if I knew about your misfortune or someone of our friends would take you up and your task would be to ask them in your thought to send me to you. The worst one is if people found you in such a state. I have no door number three. By the way, with your energy disappearance the witch can bare your genuine countenance, having seriously destroyed your beautiful mask.’
Kharon was listening to his Lord and Lucifer seemed to him to be mocking more and more.’
‘Lucifer,’ Kharon said to him, ‘if I ever put you into a rage then tell me when and how, because I don’t really understand why this karma dumped on me.’
Lucifer longed in the chair, pursed his lips and lowered his eyes. Recent days he had felt tired and wanted to have a rest and he was bothered with questions. He ran his hand across his forehead and, squinted, looked at his friend.
‘You make me find excuses,’ he told having took a sigh, ‘I didn’t mean all this happen. You see, future is not subservient to anyone, neither me nor my father. I wanted you to have fun, have a rest from millinery drab existence. If I wanted to penalize you, you’d have been crawling like a maggot without eyes in some dungeon, having fun with only echoes of your memories. But just to throw a woman under the bus wasn’t too much humanely, was it?’
Kharon smiled bitterly. He was confused with no realizing what was going on in his head.
‘Lucifer, can I ask you as my friend not as The Lord?’
‘Sure.’
‘If you ever decide that I’m bored or my life suddenly becomes unbearable for me and out of your kindness you want to shake it up with something, please, run your ideas by me first, ok? Probably it’s just seeming or something like that. Don’t jump in feet first. Doubtlessly I appreciate your care and many-sided help but now I’m in full panic mode. Forgive my plainness.’