[network] @whatisthis; morning 212; video [open]

[godsspeed]

[ The message goes up early in the day, almost immediately after Castiel wakes up. He's careful to hold his tablet the correct distance away and have it pointed at him before he starts recording - this is important, and he doesn't want anyone to be sidetracked by his confusion regarding these devices. ]

Those of you who stepped into the role of this town's Prophet last night; I need you to tell me what the beings with lights in their mouths looked like to you.

[ It's a demand as much as it is a request. He has to know if the others were being made to kill angelic effigies, immediately. Facial expressions are still something he has to make a conscious effort to preform most of the time, but even with his body language at its usual formal-neutral, there's a noticeable undercurrent of rattled desperation to his tone. Clearly the dream didn't treat him well. ]

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[godsspeed]

I can confirm that this is something an old god desperate for attention and resentful of abandonment would do. [ He says this with about the same tone one might expect a seasoned police officer looking at a hotwired car lodged in a ditch with the driver's side window smashed in to say "Ah yes, teenagers." ] None should be powerful enough to pull people from across universes, but the rest is consistent.

[spoileralert]

[ She can't help a snicker at his tone. That's kind of how she feels about the idea of someone summoning that sort of being on purpose. ]

I'm not sure how much "shoulds" apply in this case, considering some of the other stuff that happens here.

[godsspeed]

[ Castiel doesn't really understand what's so funny about what he just said, but the laughter only gives him some slight pause. Sam and Dean found things he did that weren't jokes humorous all the time - he's just sort of accepted that that's what talking to humans is like. ]

True. It may be foolish to assume things are as I expect them to be to begin with. But there's a pattern here that I recognize, the unusual strength behind it aside.

[spoileralert]

Yeah, it's hard to get used to. But nothing here is ever what you expect it to be.