Ecclesaistes Sanders

[Shine]

Out behind the training lodge is a small greenhouse and tool shed where the landscaper/gardner has set up residence in a modest rear room. He keeps the lawn mowed neatly and keeps pretty flowers growing in the window boxes, He is particularly proud of some of the indoor plants scattered about the hallways and public spaces with in the Dojo building.

His name is Ecclesiastes Sanders. He is old, tall, and has longish grey hair

He is a private person. In an earlier job, where he had managed a small woodlot of about 100 acres, in the north central part of England, he had a sign that read "Mr. Sanders", which he hung over his door there. But he found that it only attracted visitors and small animals, and he found that bothersome. So he left it there when he moved away.

He is in fact a very old soul, well over 2000 years old at this point, and long since dead. He had been a scholar and a bit of a mystic living in the desert in the Middle East. After his death, he was elevated to the heavenly realms for reasons which don't need to be discussed here, but his interest in the mental and philosophic arts was encouraged and allowed to develop. He spent a good deal of time discussing and sharing ideas with the angels and the Archangels. His soul moved quickly up the ranks. Eventually he was elevated to the highest rank a post-mortal had ever held in the heavenly host and had become chief trainer/instructor in the Angelic Special Forces, which he and the Archangel Micheal had established when the need for spritiual intervention in the mortal realm had become obvious (though a bit controvercial). Some years back he had found students quite capable of continuing the training and the organization, and had retired. He had always like growing and living things, so he returned to earth to take care of life in a variety of ways. He never really fit in with the modern world all that much. He had had a few jobs, always moving on before his immortality was noticed, sometimes being called back to work for special missions, and frequently moving on...

When the job here opened up, he snatched it immediately, and was now quite content in this new and very interesting place, meeting all kinds of people, (and sending files back to ASF headquartes on some of the "not-so-nice" types he had encountered.)