234 How to sway a crowd

Upon learning that Ithuriel had the ability to not only sense, but equally manipulate emotions, I was first gobsmacked by the sheer unused potential of his magic. But then shortly after, an idea had come to me.

(A day ago)

"So you are telling me," I say with a mild disbelief, chewing over the tip of my pen with an aggravated fervour. With only a day until the angels arrive, I have to prepare a speech compelling enough to move crowds, to sway the three thousand year war into peace and unite our people under the banner of amity. To put it lightly, I have my work cut out for me.

"You are saying that you can... influence peoples emotions?"

"And sense them too," Ithuriel adds as he sits down on one of my couches, tapping his fingers together nervously as he glances warily around the room. Perhaps this place looks like a prison to him. Alas, my study certainly isn't the most pretty of places by angel standards.