Jacob restrained every desire in him to be glib or to crack jokes at the moment. That wasn't going to help him any right now. "My name is Jacob. Yes, I am your new whitelighter." He continued speaking, not giving anyone a chance to interrupt. "And don't you even start. Bryan was great at what he did, and I can only hope to be a shadow of what he was, but the point remains right now that you need a whitelighter, and I'm it. I'm not happy about it either, but someone needs to be here to tell you that the Elders want you to have this." He pulled the scroll that Zacharias had given him out from his coat.