[Sincerity like that from a total stranger is honestly sort of fucking weird, but Castiel hasn't struck him as dangerous yet. So it's... probably okay?]

I did, yeah. But it was... I don't know, we got a few things wrong.

[He attempts a nonchalant shrug, not quite making eye contact.]

And we had to keep observing it from outside after that? We were supposed to travel to it, but shit got in the way.