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fer1972:
Volcano by Minna Sundberg
even the landscape is a beast
To Dean’s surprise, dawn breaks. He didn’t think there was daylight in purgatory.
The sky brightens and sunlight - or what passes for it - bends through Cas’s wings. (Yeah, he can he see them now, almost, the way you can see water by how it distorts the bottom of a lake. The world shimmers behind them when Cas moves, and he is becoming difficult to hear. The piercing hum of an angel’s true voice begins to outline his voice. Cas is changing.
“It’s this world,” he explained. “It undoes you, or remakes you.”
“Well, stop it!”
“I’m trying.”
Dean still sees the face of a man, but he has to blink out the afterimages of holy fire. He counts six wings.)
“At least we can see where we’re going now,” Dean mutters, squinting at the horizon.
“No,” Cas whispers. “No, this is bad. It’s awake.”
“What’s awake?”
“The land.”