"Interesting." The return of his abilities had almost been immediate then. Balthazar supposed that would explain why his brother was in such a sorry state; a classic case of too much at once. This filled the cynical angel with a sudden rush of relief. There was a very good chance that he wouldn't have to worry about being incapacitated if he could just control himself which, honestly, he was good at. When he wanted to be.

He wondered, though, if the return of power would feel natural to him. Would he automatically know it was there or would it sit dormant until he unconsciously used it? Maybe it would feel alien to him now that his body was fully human. "Well, that's what you get for being a show-off."