yes, we believe in the wisdom of our god
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jovahs_heiressIsabella is generally referred to as: promising.
Angels in general are a breed apart. Of course they've all got lovely voices, they've all got classical music training and know the masses and prayers, they're all blessed winged creatures -
But that doesn't mean they're all smart, or all good, even (Isabella was taken to see Windy Point, once, or what's left of it, and of course she sees the scars on Galo Mountain every year at the Gloria; there stood angels who were not good). And Isabella is smart and good.
Isabella is always the first to volunteer for an intercession. She likes them. She'll call down weather, plead for seeds, pray a shower of medicine to fall from the sky, and she will get what she asks for, and she loves nothing more than to dive from hours aloft in prayer and clasp the hands of the people she helped and go home to the Eyrie to take on her next assignment. When there are none - when there is the right amount of rain and sun in the province, when there is no plague and no famine - she studies. She studies a bit of everything, but she fancies herself particularly a historian, investigating the accounts of Archangels' reigns past. From books, mostly, although once she wrangled herself a year in Cedar Hills to assist the Archangel Linus, and when she is in the Eyrie she closely follows the leader of the host there, the former term-lapsed Archangel Delilah.
She tried to get in with the other living former Archangel, too, Alleluia the oracle who served as Delilah's interim while the latter's wing recovered from an injury, but after a few hours' conversation Alleluia said that she could not accept Isabella as even a temporary acolyte and sent her to Peninnah instead. Isabella learned a lot from Peninnah, but she's confused about why Alleluia turned her down personally only to send her to another oracle, after such a prolonged interview. Particularly since Sinai is in her own province; what was the point in sending her all the way to Gaza?
But the instruction came from an oracle, and oracles' words more often than not come from Jovah. She went to Gaza, learned from Peninnah, and went home.
Now she is back at the Eyrie, and the first thing she wants to do is let Delilah know that she's back. Her wings aren't so tired that she can't immediately fly to the Corinnis or the outskirts of Semorrah or anywhere and accomplish something. Failing that, she'd love to sign up for harmonies again now that she's home and wants to know what she ought to schedule around.
Delilah is with her husband Noah, and a visitor. He doesn't seem like a petitioner, and he doesn't look like an Edori, although the fact that he and Noah are talking in Edori suggests that he might be an adopted one. (There are hardly any Edori of either sort left; most of them live in Ysral, now.) Isabella waits patiently outside the door for the host leader's attention.
Angels in general are a breed apart. Of course they've all got lovely voices, they've all got classical music training and know the masses and prayers, they're all blessed winged creatures -
But that doesn't mean they're all smart, or all good, even (Isabella was taken to see Windy Point, once, or what's left of it, and of course she sees the scars on Galo Mountain every year at the Gloria; there stood angels who were not good). And Isabella is smart and good.
Isabella is always the first to volunteer for an intercession. She likes them. She'll call down weather, plead for seeds, pray a shower of medicine to fall from the sky, and she will get what she asks for, and she loves nothing more than to dive from hours aloft in prayer and clasp the hands of the people she helped and go home to the Eyrie to take on her next assignment. When there are none - when there is the right amount of rain and sun in the province, when there is no plague and no famine - she studies. She studies a bit of everything, but she fancies herself particularly a historian, investigating the accounts of Archangels' reigns past. From books, mostly, although once she wrangled herself a year in Cedar Hills to assist the Archangel Linus, and when she is in the Eyrie she closely follows the leader of the host there, the former term-lapsed Archangel Delilah.
She tried to get in with the other living former Archangel, too, Alleluia the oracle who served as Delilah's interim while the latter's wing recovered from an injury, but after a few hours' conversation Alleluia said that she could not accept Isabella as even a temporary acolyte and sent her to Peninnah instead. Isabella learned a lot from Peninnah, but she's confused about why Alleluia turned her down personally only to send her to another oracle, after such a prolonged interview. Particularly since Sinai is in her own province; what was the point in sending her all the way to Gaza?
But the instruction came from an oracle, and oracles' words more often than not come from Jovah. She went to Gaza, learned from Peninnah, and went home.
Now she is back at the Eyrie, and the first thing she wants to do is let Delilah know that she's back. Her wings aren't so tired that she can't immediately fly to the Corinnis or the outskirts of Semorrah or anywhere and accomplish something. Failing that, she'd love to sign up for harmonies again now that she's home and wants to know what she ought to schedule around.
Delilah is with her husband Noah, and a visitor. He doesn't seem like a petitioner, and he doesn't look like an Edori, although the fact that he and Noah are talking in Edori suggests that he might be an adopted one. (There are hardly any Edori of either sort left; most of them live in Ysral, now.) Isabella waits patiently outside the door for the host leader's attention.
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Date: 2013-02-12 05:48 pm (UTC)Nathaniel hesitates, then says, "Mother was very glad to send me to join the choir."
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Date: 2013-02-12 05:52 pm (UTC)"That's only half an answer to the question I was asking. Does she, too, need protection? If she does, we can whisk her away instead of checking with Alleya a couple of times a year to see if a new child has been dedicated as the son or daughter of Canaan."
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Date: 2013-02-12 05:55 pm (UTC)Nathaniel looks at him for a moment, and then shakes his head: he doesn't know either.
"I never saw him do anything to her, anyway," says Micaiah. Nathaniel nods, but looks troubled.
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Date: 2013-02-12 05:59 pm (UTC)"Yes, Delilah," says Isabella.
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Date: 2013-02-12 06:00 pm (UTC)Then, spontaneously, Nathaniel hugs him.
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Date: 2013-02-12 06:03 pm (UTC)"Yes, Delilah," repeats Isabella, smiling and getting up to usher the hugging boys out of the room.
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Date: 2013-02-12 08:43 pm (UTC)Then he says, softly but with a trace of a smile, "Thank you anyway."
Micaiah laughs and gives him a friendly one-armed hug around the shoulders.
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Date: 2013-02-12 09:21 pm (UTC)"Hi," murmurs Nathaniel.
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Date: 2013-02-12 09:23 pm (UTC)And she and Micaiah return to her quarters.
"He's safe," she says, satisfied.
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Date: 2013-02-12 09:24 pm (UTC)Micaiah spontaneously hugs her very hard.
"I love you," he says into her shoulder.
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Date: 2013-02-12 09:31 pm (UTC)She does have hugs. She has an ample supply of hugs.
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Date: 2013-02-12 09:44 pm (UTC)Snuggle.
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Date: 2013-02-12 09:46 pm (UTC)And: "I'm really glad I met you."
Because she is. It's the first tangible sign that anything she's done short of typical prayers for intercession are reaching Jovah's attention. It enabled her to remove a child from a toxic home. If he's not the best kisser in his tribe she'd like to know what numb-lipped person was judging. She is really glad she met him.
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Date: 2013-02-12 10:05 pm (UTC)