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castiel ([personal profile] goodintent) wrote in [community profile] caveofsapphires2012-06-05 01:44 am

(open) you've been gone much longer

WHO: Castiel (Gregory Wilton) & open!
WHAT: Another mojoless angel flops around town hello /o/
WHERE: (Cave) The library mostly, creeping around town, eventually the bar because why not.
WHEN: Monday (4th) - Thursday (7th).
WARNINGS: None atm!

It wasn't long after Castiel had "woken up" and was fed an elaborate story about how he was really a human man named Gregory Wilton that the angel was walking around the Cave searching for answers. Normally, such a search would take him a few seconds at best, but it would seem that at the moment he was stripped of his powers and rendered human. Again.

He wasn't a fan, but nonetheless tried his best to search the Cave via foot and found by the end of the day his situation had not really changed.

The next day, Cas was being encouraged to... "go to work" by the workers. At first, he fully intended on ignoring them -- but when he discovered that Gregory's job was at the library, the (former) angel complied. Not that he even knew what on Earth librarians even did. Well, they organized books, he supposed, but that wasn't the only thing, was it? He didn't know and decided he didn't care to learn at the moment, though he could certainly use the facility for his own purposes. As such, Monday then became nothing more than one long study session that started with the collection of paper books (seeing as Cas was still a little perplexed by the digital technology of man). Begrudgingly grabbing himself one of the ladders provided, he set to work scanning over each and every single title, pulling out those he deemed useful. Piles of books formed around his search areas as he worked and at varying points throughout the day, one could either find him sitting/standing around thumbing through book after book or moving through aisles with his head titled so he could read the title written on the spine as he moved.

Tuesday, Cas was back at it. He had figured out the basic history of the Cave and the City, but beyond that he had yet to discover anything helpful. Eventually, Castiel found himself turning more and more to the digital information (which meant he spent some time simply figuring out how the gadgets worked). After a while of playing with the e-reader in his hands, he was able to figure out basically how the thing worked. But even so, Castiel was left staring intently into the screen with a furrowed brow and tilted head as though the device held all the secrets of the universe inside.

By Wednesday he had learned that the device did not hold any secrets of any universe. Cas had figured it out to the point of being able to look at it without an expression of confusion stamped on his face though, so there was that at least. That said, Castiel deemed the resources of the library depleted and decided it was time he ventured back into the strange little world. He located the subway system later that day, and though was denied access to it because he had not yet completed what he understood to be a week long quest of sorts, hovered around nearby for a little while before deciding this too was a lost cause. The people in charge here were very stubborn, it seemed.

Naturally, he was drinking by Thursday. Beginning to get a little ruffled by his lack of success here and growing concern about what must be happening in Heaven but powerless to do a damn thing, the angel sat at the bar quietly nursing a glass of some sort of whiskey. Normally he was protected by some holy alcohol tolerance, but now that he was human he had no such gift. That said, it would seem that he was still a far cry from a lightweight -- Cas had downed a couple shots prior to the whiskey and still didn't seem much different from his usual, serious self.
deshabille: «vampire judging the fuck outta you» (Default)

Wednesday, June 8

[personal profile] deshabille 2012-06-05 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
For the last two weeks, Mal had been poking her nose into places it likely didn't belong and trying to dig up information on . . . well, anything would have been nice. Food sources. Information that had not been officially improved. A map with an X marked 'HERE BE THE TRUTH' would have been lovely. But no, none of that. That would have been too easy.

Still, she kept trying - in large part out of boredom, because there were so few people in the City spread out so thinly, and there wasn't even anyone to train with given the fact that Re-l had vanished somewhere - and on Wednesday found herself emerging from the Hiberna train. Slinking past the guards hovering around the entrance, she stretched her back out from the long ride. "Home again, home again," she muttered, before cocking her head at the man hovering at the entrance to the platform.

"Are you looking for something?" she asked curiously, studiously ignoring the guards.
deshabille: «vampire trolling in the deep» (☀ if you're thinking anything)

[personal profile] deshabille 2012-06-05 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, wasn't that an interesting answer? It implied so many things. For one, this person likely didn't believe whatever information he'd been given; for another, he liked a bit of dramatic turn of phrase.

Mal suppressed a grin. "Well, I doubt you'll find any very good answers here," she said, quite cheerfully, "although part of the reason for that is that nobody here much likes questions. Most questions. The big questions, like 'is all of this real?' and 'are you seriously expecting me to believe that I was slept through a global disaster?'"

She stepped a bit closer and held out her hand. "My name is Milena," she said, erring on the side of caution because here, in the Cave, with guards all around them, she'd be very stupid not to. "I'm going to hazard a guess that you've just woken up from a very long nap."
deshabille: «vampire appreciating nature» (☀ out in my yard)

[personal profile] deshabille 2012-06-06 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Castiel. Well, that was interesting, and odd. Mostly odd. Not the first thing to ask about, though; she filed it away for future investigation.

Tucking her hands behind her back, she rocked slightly on the balls of her feet. "Castiel, then," she said, wondering if he failed to understand the potential consequences of using his true name in this place. "Good to meet you, although the circumstances could be nicer." She briefly toyed with the idea of warning him against using his name before settling on, "I hope you'll forgive me for using the name I don't remember. It's . . . easier, here."
deshabille: «vampire judging the fuck outta you» (Default)

[personal profile] deshabille 2012-06-06 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
She smiled, cocking her head at him. "Wait 'til you see what's waiting for you on the other side. It's a joke, it really is."

The City had been a tremendous disappointment, all told. So few people, and even fewer answers. She hoped that someone - Re-l, or maybe Chivy - would find out more than she had, but those hopes were dying, slowly and agonizingly.

"What sort of answers are you looking for?" she asked Castiel. "Keep in mind that I probably don't have answers to most of them. It's been a hard month for answers."
deshabille: «vampire considering cheese theft» (☀ would you tell me)

[personal profile] deshabille 2012-06-07 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
"There's hints," she said, "but no big picture that I can see." It was the pervasive sense of not knowing how everything - the metro, the empty city, the static person who'd been on the network, and the Caretaker, whoever that was - fit together. "The main problem is that it's just empty. It's not really a city, it's . . . buildings."

She made a face at his questions. A bit too broad for her to answer, but she could certainly try. "Cryogenics, allegedly," she said. "But I'm very vague on what exactly that is. The real how is a question I don't think anyone's found the answers to yet." It was, after all, a very big and complicated question, and one they weren't technically allowed to ask.

"As to why . . . " She let out a frustrated sigh in a puff of air, blowing her bangs out of her face. "I think a lot of the people here, the Workers, don't know anything's wrong. Or they're very good actors. As for the Caretaker, don't know a thing about him, don't know how to find him."
deshabille: «vampire wondering how you walk upright» (☀ take my aim)

[personal profile] deshabille 2012-06-07 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Watching Castiel think was interesting. It was like watching Jade think, in a way, Mal thought, because you knew that something important was happening in there but there were no tells as to what it might be, or even what neighborhood it might be in. She watched him expectantly, not moving to respond until he asked an actual question.

And what a question, too. "Seen him?" She thought about it. "No one, that I know of. Or heard from him." This wasn't typical behavior of somewhat with a maniacal plan, which, now that she thought about it, was worrisome. It likely meant that he either believed in what he was doing, or was intelligent. Nothing worse than an intelligent enemy.