[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 don't think that would accomplish much. I don't have the authority to request excursions into Hell or assign my commanding officers to them.

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[jumpthegun]

[This is like talking to Ecks, but an Ecks with a firmer Earth-based context.]

I mean it figuratively. Telling someone to 'go to hell' is telling them 'no' in the strongest way possible.

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[godsspeed]

Oh. That makes sense. [ Most things don't leave Hell once they enter it, therefore being told to go there is essentially being told the speaker never wishes to see you again. Human language is so colorful. Maybe he shouldn't have been so quick to dismiss their poetry. ]

I did not obey, but I'm still not sure it was right. It feels like cowardice, not conviction.

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[jumpthegun]

Sometimes doing what's right still doesn't feel very good, feels like you're acting the coward. But there have to be lines you won't cross. If what you were ordered to do was across that line, then I would say you're a brave man for having the courage to stand up to your superiors. And it makes you a better person than they are.