Lost Flame

(Formerly called "Flame of Holy Fire", from the book Significant Circumstances)
Oriel is the Holy Fire of the Most High, sent to earth in the final days to fight with the other angelic agents. When the plans of the saints go horribly awry and a love from his past comes back to haunt him, will he be able to finish his mission? And who is the woman that looks so much like the one he used to know? (This is a companion story to The Angel & Her Gun as well as The Demon & His Lover.)

This is a short story, approximately 7900 words.