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[Part of Chris thinks he should've made this post awhile ago, and part of him still doesn't want to. But it's a compromise to do it now, and it's probably the best time for it anyway; the last event is over, and new people haven't arrived yet. It's the calm before the whatever, storm or otherwise.

But he's going with text because even though it's been a little while, he doesn't want to try to say the first part of this post in anything other than text.]

Hey everyone. So I guess I'll start off with the bad news: anyone who were friends with Ashley or Josh should know they aren't here anymore. Also, I'm going to add that if Josh owed you money or favors or whatever else, you're totally out of luck because I'm not honoring them no matter what he might've told you.

[Jokes make this not heartbreaking, right? Definitely.]

Though I guess this is also a good time to mention that if you're working on anything important or even just keeping general notes or something, you might want to consider sending them to a friend every so often. If whatever it is is just on your phone when you disappear, it's pretty much as gone as you are.

So yeah. Back up your data and all that. Even if you don't want to send an electronic copy to someone, at least keep paper notes or something.

[Semi-relatedly...]

If anyone needs help with how to send files or whatever, just let me know. And I'm finishing a program for something else right now, but then I guess I'm taking requests? If there's something you'd like a program on your phone for, I can see if I can figure out how to do it. It's not like I have a whole lot else better to be doing, so feel free and ask even though I can't totally promise I'll be able to do it.

[But still, please ask. Please give him something to do other than miss his friends.]

And okay, last thing I swear, and it's the good part. For everyone who's new here and doesn't know, we have pretty awesome coffee at the bar thanks to Delight. Usually either Emily or I are there to make it, but if we're not just send one of us a message; it's part of the deal with Delight about the coffee to make it, so you're not bothering us or whatever.

So yeah, you might be stuck in a shitty cave, but at least there's coffee. That's something, right?

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Until it isn't.

[ Castiel considers it for a moment, and then smiles, carefully. It's not so bad here. The people are friendly, and that helps. And now there's coffee. ]

What happened at home? Do you talk about it?

That's already happened, but it doesn't um... One or two people still doesn't change the overall trend here.

[He's quiet a few seconds at the question, because it's not really a secret what happened--parts of it, anyway--but he also isn't really geared up to talk about it much.]

We um, we talk about it sometimes. Has anyone uh... Told you about the wendigo event that happened here awhile ago?

Not much about it, no. Only that they were here, and further to that present in the caves. I am familiar with the mythology, however.

[ Is mythology the right word for something that's real in your own universe? Maybe not. ]

Oh, um, are they a thing where you're from too?

[He knows they are in some, and that would explain the familiarity with their lore.]

The ones that were here were from my world.

Wendigos and other things. If there are things, then generally they are a thing from my world, yes, myself included.

[ He considers what that explanation means, then asks, softly: ] What happened?

What do you mean by you being included?

[It's curious, not wary; he's gotten very used to people here not being human, so he's just interested.

Answering the question is a little difficult, but he can give a summarized version; he's had a lot of practice at that here.]

Um, a bunch of my friends and I were on this mountain, and it turned out there were wendigos. I um... I know some of us made it off the mountain, but some didn't.

I'm an angel. It's... You cannot imagine how difficult it is to convince people that I am what I am. On the contrary, I suspect if I were a vampire, or some kind of were-something, it would be accepted almost without question.

[ He nods in response to the explanation, however. ]

I assume you didn't know there were wendigos there when you went?

[Chris can't say he blames people for being shocked by that answer; he is too, even though just as Castiel mentions he's gotten used to monsters and vampires and pretty much whatever else at this point. But an angel is somehow different, although Chris doesn't disbelieve him.]

Yeah, that's um... Kind of a surprise.

[As far as Castiel's question--]

No, um, monsters aren't supposed to exist in my world. Like, at all.

[It was a pretty horrible surprise.]

[ What Castiel didn't appreciate, of course, was that being exposed to the world of monsters was only being given confirmation of what humans believed innately--that there was something in the dark. Believing that someone was an angel, though? That introduced a whole different concept: the presence of God, Heaven, Hell, sin and eternal judgement. It was too much for a lot of people, and Castiel didn't cotton onto it, really.

To be fair, he didn't really consider himself as being equivalent to a werewolf or a vampire, either. ]

I am sorry about your friends. And that the wendigos followed you here.

[That's definitely part of it, although it's tempered slightly by that Chris is very aware that the rules of one world don't apply to another. Even if God and angels and everything else are real in his world too, that'd ultimately be a lot better than just wendigos or anything else that might be lurking unknown somewhere in the world.]

Thanks. It um... It sucked, but I guess it also made all of being here not as hard to adjust to.

I understand. Some familiarity helps. My friends are here, and I can't imagine this place without them. I suppose familiar monsters is somewhat different, but...

Yeah, having my friends here is uh, nicer than the monsters part, but still.

[He sounds a little amused, despite the subject.]

Who're your friends?

Sam and Dean Winchester, and their friend Jo Harvelle. They're hunters--um, hunters of the supernatural. Wendigo, ghosts, demons, they face such things daily.

It's useful to know. If there's an attack by monsters here, then they can help you with them.

Oh, um, I actually know all them. They're all really cool.

[Chris likes all three of them, though he doesn't know Jo as well as Sam and Dean and there was the whole shadow-Dean thing but whatever.]

They are. I've known them for a long time. We stopped the apocalypse together. More or less.

I'm uh, guessing that with you being an angel and all you mean apocalypse totally literally.

[Because sure, why not at this point?]

Yes. It was quite literal. There were Horsemen and everything.

Huh. Well, I'm glad you stopped it.

[And also, he has to ask--]

So is like... Is all the religious biblical stuff real in your world?

By no means all of it. But some of it, yes.

The problem is that stories are considered to be open to interpretation--and so they were.

yeah, um, that makes sense. And I mean like, if any of it's true at all just going from language to language would kind of screw up some of the subtleties of the stories anyway, right?

[Also he'll just pretend the whole idea of any of it being real, even in a totally different world, isn't really unsettling to him.]

I mean... Um. There are some things that stand as truth, none the less. It's easier if you lived through them, witnessed them yourself.

[ That does help, though. ]

[That'd definitely help.]

Was it um, all a long time ago for you? I mean, Dean and Sam and Jo seem pretty... Modern, so...

[So if Castiel knows them then he's probably not from thousands of years ago timeline-wise, but who knows?]

They're the latest... My friends. My garrison was ordered to watch humanity, so we watched. I watched. For a very long time. Since you were...tiny. I mean actually tiny. Just a few cells, functioning in unison, with no comprehension of where it would lead you.

It's been fascinating.

Geez. That sounds totally crazy, but also kind of cool.

[He can't imagine being alive and around on that sort of timescale.]

It was. Of course, humanity was much easier to understand when all it did was consume, reproduce itself asexually and then die. You're all much more complicated now.

[ And then occasionally he says things like this, and you realize that maybe there is a whole other level of weird crazy person beyond his usual charming persona. ]

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