waiting, waiting...

[Cael]

"So, I'm sitting out in the middle of no where on a tree stump and I have no idea where I am or how I got here. It all just happened way too fast! I see no one so apparently the whole 'wait here til we find you a person' thing was just crazy talk then. And apparently talking to yourself can't even be cured in death because i'm still doin it!" Cael laughs a small laugh at herself for being that person even in death, how funny to not change much despite dying and all the crazy things that happened in the past... wait has it been days, hours, maybe even years since she died?
"hmmm... I don't know, it's impossible to know since there really was no time in the waiting room I was in for who knows how long. Wow! Well, it was dark when I got stabbed that's the one thing i remember before the ambulence and the light, soooo it's day time whereever I am now. so it could only have been a few hours or a few days... or more... This is just frustrating! I guess I'll just wait here and stare at that grocery store over there til something happens. I don't really know what else to do."
She eventually gets bored just watching the store and looks around to see what else is in this town that she can see from the stump because she's too scarred to move from the stump not knowing what is expected of her from whoever is reigning over her. "hmmmm well they have railroad tracks here so that is probably a popular site with the local kids... um a laundry mat, interesting. Wow! does a small town really need two gas stations that close to eachother? Well, there's a post office to the east. Wow this place is uneventful! Now what?"
So, she sits and waits for something to happen.

[Patientia]

Patientia smiled gently gently as she listened to the young angel talk. Everyone in the world seemed to be so impatient these days. It was very funny though to hear someone talking to themselves like that.

"You haven't been waiting that long." The arch angel said as she approached her charge. The older angels long brown hair swayed gently she strolled leisurely to close the distance between them, which was small in the first place. It was only a few feet after all. Her wings fluttered gently seeing as they were both invisible to the human eye at the moment.

She was wearing her usual choice of a pastel colored shirt, in this case it was pink. The small smile still played on her face though most that looked at her wouldn't even see it.

[Cael]

Cael starts at the person in front of her with wings and the look of some sort of catalog model. "whoa! I guess I should get used to the wings considering an angel who's startled by the wings is a little strange! So what do you mean I haven't been waiting long? You know how long I've been like this? Sorry bout the questions it's just that i have so many and no one has taken time to answer any where ever I was after I died. It stills seems like it wasn't real that I even did die. You know?"
Cael takes another look around and realizes that they're out in eye sight and then turns back to the other angel.
"So are we supposed to be visible wings and all to people or are we not visible right now? and i didn't ask if you had a name either." She pauses and asks yet another question, " So where are we anyways?"

[Patientia]

The arch angel waited for Cael to stop talking before answering the questions. The new angel certainly did have a lot of them, then again that made perfect sense.

"We are in a small town in the united states." She finished off that sentence by giving the tiny towns name. "Yes I do know exactly how long you have been waiting here, and no we are not visible to the human eye at this moment." she paused before addressing the other questions, taking her time with the whole thing. "I am afraid that I don't know, I was never human" On that note it was probably time to introduce herself.

"I am Patientia, arch angel of patience." There was along and silent pause before she offered Cael her hand to shake, it would probably make the angel feel more comfortable.

"And it's fine Cael, Ask all the questions you want. That's why I'm here." Patietia's voice was calm and soothing just like it always was. It made her a good teacher for new angels.

[Cael]

"So, they send out the arch angel of patience to teach new gaurdians what they're supposed to do? Heh! That's funny despite the fact that it makes sense because angels that have actually been human once probably need their teachers to have a TON of patience and i'm sure we are good at trying that patience since we don't know any better." Cael says shaking the hand of arch angel, her new teacher. "What's first on the agenda of what you must tell me or show me or whatever you are supposed to do for training me?" Cael said after taking her hand away from the hand shake. She absent mindedly ran her other hand through her hair and then remembered something from her life that made her jump and pull her hand back in front of her face with a strand of hair stuck in between her fingers.
"You know I'd just gotten a hair cut that afternoon, you know, just a few hours before I was... oh my! All the time in that room I knew I had died but didn't really remember how it happened til now... If you've worked with others like me do they usually remember it all? Do they ever ask if they'd have a mark or something where it happened if they died like I did? I'll be honest I am wondering about those things a little bit... It's strange that i feel sad but I also feel like it really didn't happen, that I'm gonna wake up any minute and this will all have not happened. But it did happen didn't it? Would God be upset if I were to feel sorry for my old life being lost and all the people that I left behind that depened on me? Sorry I can't stop asking questions I guess. It's just that I don't know how to act I guess."
She looks down at her shoes, of course like the converse she loved wearing all the time, like the ones she was wearing when it all went wrong... She looks back up at her teacher and stands up.

[Patientia]

Patientia smiled gently at Cael. "It's fine. These are normal feelings to be having. After all Caring about those in your life is a good thing" She paused and ran her hand through a lock of her own hair.

"I actually don't teach often. It has been a long time even by my standards of time." She smiled again. "But how about we start with what you know or think you know." After all that seemed like a good way to start, build off of what was already there.

[Cael]

Cael turns from Patientia and lifts her shirt just a little. Then quickly drops it back down and gasps in shock and slight horror. "So, I know the answer to that one now. Wish I hadn't thought of that one."
She turns back to Patientia and says "Well, apparently I still have the wounds. I guess the fact that Jesus still had his wounds when he came to the disciples should have told me that one." Cael looks down and kicks the dust on the ground about for a few seconds. She puts her right hand on the back of her neck and she walks in a tiny circle. With a quick glance back at her teacher she then walks in that tiny circle once more.
"So I guess that leaves the whole now what do i need to know question."