You think she'd answer? Her people sure as shit don't say anything useful. [Dean shakes his head.] You weren't here when this thing's shell cracked. There were a lot of people who could've helped but they wouldn't let us. Hell, they made it sound like if we tried, we were in deep shit.
Yeah, again, Cas, there's the rumors about us helping. Kinda hard for us to do that if they keep us out of anything useful. The way I see it, we're just getting in their way, so why not let us all go home?
Of course it's a matter of-- [Wait what] What, you think there's a gate or something, and it's closed? You can check in but you can never check out? [Don't quote Hotel California at Cas, Dean, there's no point to it.]
I can't feel anything beyond the world-turtle, Dean. It could just be my limitations...or we could exist inside of a vacuum. A dimensional bubble, like the artificial realm of a god.
[no dean does not like that] Well, shit. [That is bad and unpleasant news that he didn't want. Cas, why you gotta do that?] Guess we better hope we can find something about a gate, then. More important, guess we need to figure out how to open it when we do.
The Emperor may not even be a native of this world. [Cas shakes his head.] It's unlikely she'll give us much time, or much information. We should be careful what we ask. [You know how it is with these deity types, man; sometimes it all depends on how you phrase the question.]
[ugh, Dean is not good at phrasing questions in ways that deity-types like, and if Dean is bad, Cas is probably worse, what with the whole Judeo-Christianity vs. Everyone Else thing the pantheons have going on.] Okay. Okay, so we just need to play things cool. We can do that. One question at a time, right? Library first and if she seems chill, we move on.
[Which Dean has noticed, but it's not any dramatically worse than it was in Purgatory, so it's not really worth noting.] I'll talk to her soon as I can. In the meantime, don't give all your money away, willya?
[Oh. Cas had just kind of assumed he'd be going with Dean for the audience, but of course he'd want to handle this himself. It makes perfect sense, especially if the reason the Emperor had sealed his powers is because she'd recognized him as an angel and has a grudge. Naturally, Dean would prefer to handle this alone.
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[Or like the faerie realm, like that.]
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Not as assertive as he used to be.]
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[Oh. Cas had just kind of assumed he'd be going with Dean for the audience, but of course he'd want to handle this himself. It makes perfect sense, especially if the reason the Emperor had sealed his powers is because she'd recognized him as an angel and has a grudge. Naturally, Dean would prefer to handle this alone.
Yeah.]
I'll try.