"Anger -- no peevish fit of temper, but just, generous, scalding indignation -- passes (not necessarily at onec) into embracing, excultant, re-welcoming love. This is how friends and lovers are truely reconciled. Hot wrath, hot love. Such anger is the fluid that love bleeds when you cut it. The angers, not the measured remonstrances, of lovers are love's renewal. Wrath and pardon are both, as applied to God, analogies; but they belong together in the came circle of analogy -- the circle of life, of love, and deeply personal relationships. All the liberalising and 'civilising' analogies only lead us astray. Turn God's wrath into mere enlightened disapproval, and you also turn His love into mere humanitarianism. The 'consuming fire' and the 'perfect beauty' both vanish." -- C. S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm Corporeal Forces 3 Strength 6 Agility 6 Ethereal Forces 3 Intelligence 6 Precision 6 Celestial Forces 4 Will 6 Perception 10 Vessel: Human Female/2, Charisma +1 Skills: Fighting/4, Dodge/4, Emote/2 Songs: Charm (Celestial/2), Dreams (Corporeal/2, Celestial/2) Attunements: Seraph of Fire, Ofanite of Fire, Smite Appearance: Jehoash appears on Earth a tall Hispanic woman, with long hair and smoky black eyes. She dresses in whatever Zobah brings to her, which means she normally wears worn-out castoffs. Story: A psychiatrist might, if he had a chance to examine her, diagnose Jehoash as manic-depressive. He would be profoundly wrong. Jehoash is one of Gabriel's Seraphim, an angel of truth. She sees both the beauty of Creation and the depravity of the evil in it without any of the mental blinders and self-absorption that shield men from it. And she feels the corresponding emotions with a purity and clarity that humans will find frightening. What is especially disturbing about her is the near-total lack of emotional distance that she sets between herself and the rest of the universe. She is very, very open to the feelings of others, drawing them into her own self and seeing them clearly. Her righteous anger against the cruel arises because she cannot bear the suffering of their victims, and likewise her joy at even the simplest kindness will seem to be unusually strong. If you caught her in an introspective mood, she might remark that angels were made to form the retinues fo the blessed, and to sing their praises to God. She would say that the people she comes to punish are those that she was made to celebrate, but who ruined themselves by placing themselves in willful rebellion against the laws of God. She is utterly indifferent to any human social conventions, and has no particular interest in learning about them. Instead, she relies on Zobah to figure out what is going on and to explain to her what she needs to do.

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