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021 [Video] | Early morning D416

[This isn't going to be long, as Castiel is distracted, but...]

I believe this may be an opportune time to mention that I have potions available which eliminate hangover symptoms.

[That's how he's up and running around after how much he drank the night before, after all.]

[[ooc: I am finally getting Cas' shop up and going! An open log is up here, but feel free to reply or offline on this post if you want. c: The shop's page is also mostly finished!]]

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[Castiel's jaw tightens, because he can't actually answer. He doesn't know, because he can't remember, because of what has been done to all of them for the purpose of preventing one of them from becoming the next Lucifer.

He isn't about to explain any of that, so there's little he can say and he considers just hanging up. But finally, he speaks.]

Doubting God, or our orders, or our mission risks incurring the same fate that befell our world's Lucifer. Those doubts and questions were therefore kept silent, though they were considered by many for a very long time.

Isn't that worse? [ to keep silent and keep on doing everything they are told even if they question it? Because they were afraid of falling? ]

What exact fate befell your world's Lucifer, brother?

No. We had our reasons for inaction.

[It isn't so much falling, though that would have terrified a lot of angels; it was the being tortured and brainwashed and then eventually killed if that didn't work.]

He was cast out and imprisoned in a portion of Hell.

Which was?

[ Imprisoned in Hell. He has to wonder what that would be like. ]

Have you seen it? Hell.

Nothing I desire to explain.

[To anyone, let alone another world's Lucifer.]

I have. I have been to Hell and Lucifer's Cage both.

[ he won't insist then ]

How was it like?

Tumultuous. Violent.

[Suffocating and dark and endlessly horrific.]

Have you ever been, in your world?

[He would presume so, but who knows.]

Was it painful?

[ Satan nods. ] I was in Hell when I was pulled here. My cage is actually a demon called Zenon, and he was my right hand before. Father locked me inside of him.

I was at full power when I visited Hell, and did so with my garrison. Few demons can harm an angel, let alone several together, even in Hell.

[But the Cage had been a different situation, though he's not going to go into detail on that. Instead he tilts his head, eyebrows furrowed slightly.]

What did that entail?

Would you wish that upon your enemies?

[ Satan closes his eyes for a moment. He is not going to specify because that would mean saying too much about his world, but he will still answer ] Psychological torture. It was not Zenon that provoked it, he simply contained it.

Hell? No.

[Hell is different now, and not particularly terrible, but no. There are very few people he wishes harm on, and it's never Hell.

For a moment he feels a flash of sympathy at Satan's answer, quiet, and he offers just a little insight into his world in return.]

That seems a common punishment among angels.

Would you wish that upon your son? [ Lucifer shakes his head ] It was not the angels that tortured me.

[ but he will pay attention to Castiel's words. ]

Were angels being punished due to those doubts and questions you mentioned?

I know.

[It was God, surely, just as it was in his world. He doesn't answer the last question, though he doesn't hostilely change the subject either.]

[ the lack of answer is a good enough answer. ]

You may not enjoy hearing this, but you and I are not so different, Castiel.

I've heard it before.

[It isn't angry or defensive, just a statement, because he knows it's true.]

[ he smiles ] Most would be offended.

I'm not most.

[He's not really pleased, but he isn't offended either; it is fact that he and Lucifer--at least his world's Lucifer--are similar in many ways. They're strong-willed, independent, adaptable and capable and clever but also volatile, temperamental, insecure and desperate to be recognized and respected. There's no denying that, even if Castiel had done so when his Lucifer told him exactly what this one had.

But despite their similarities he's trying to take different actions--make different choices--even if so far he has utterly failed.]

That is something you should hold on to, brother.

[He doesn't know how to take that, because he doesn't know how he feels about the sentiment itself or about Satan saying it, so he just ignores it.]

I have... Customers to assist.

[It's half true, half a really lame excuse to end the conversation.]

[ he nods. Certainly it's an excuse, but Satan doesn't mind it ]

See you later. [ because they will.

And after, he turns off the feed. ]

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