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Castiel ([personal profile] ofthursday) wrote in [community profile] paradisalogs2013-07-20 07:29 pm
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As I write this down [OPEN]

Who: Castiel, OPEN
What: Arriving in Tokyodisa~
When: July 20th, around noon
Where: The hotel lobby
Rating: Probably PG at most


Once the sky had gone dark once again Castiel had picked a random direction and re-entered the forest, unsure of where he was and which way to go... And then suddenly he was somewhere completely different. He looked around rapidly, confused, turning in place a few times; the room was completely unfamiliar and his first thought was that Metatron had transported him somewhere, but he was alone.

The room was quiet, clean and inviting but at the same time cold and impartial, and oddly he could see daylight through the window; it had been the middle of the night last he was aware. He took a minute or two to explore the room, all nerves on edge and just waiting for someone or something to appear and break the supposed tranquility, but it never came.

Once he'd figured out that he was truly alone and there was nothing overtly dangerous in the room, his next concern was whether he could get out; when he tried the door and it opened without issue it was something of a surprise, as he'd expected to be locked in. It was, at least, a welcome surprise that he wasn't. Stepping out into the hallway, he glanced back at the door to take note of which one it was, and the sight of his name on the door was also unexpected and slightly disconcerting. He obviously hadn't ended up there on accident, and he needed to figure out how and why he had, and he set off cautiously down the hall.

It became apparent quickly enough that he was in a hotel, and that set him a little more at ease, because at least hotels were something familiar to him. Still, it was surreal in a way--the entire day had been--and he wasn't quite processing everything yet, moving on autopilot, nothing having quite sunk in just yet. As Castiel wandered into the lobby his steps slowed, cautious and on edge once again while he looked for someone who might be able to tell him something about where he was.

Figuring that out was the first step to getting somewhere else.
courageous_wit: (Faint 2)

[personal profile] courageous_wit 2013-07-25 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're quite welcome, Castiel." She smiled at him. "If you can't find what you need in this journal, you're welcome to look through mine. I have an older version."

The more she spoke the more she felt like she would need to explain. "And if you need me," she added, "just write my name in your journal and I'll be able to speak with you privately. All right?"
courageous_wit: (Hmm)

[personal profile] courageous_wit 2013-07-26 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Anyone with a journal." She wrote his name down and though he would see no difference, no one else with an open journal would now be able to read their conversation. "It's the most we can do in terms of private conversations, aside from speaking face-to-face."
courageous_wit: (Gulp)

[personal profile] courageous_wit 2013-07-26 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Closing them is the only way to 'turn them off', so to speak. But they can open themselves whenever they like. Usually when it's most embarrassing for their owners." She pursed her lips, letting out a sigh of frustration remembering the times the journal did that to her.

"And you can't get rid of them or destroy them, and they're one of the few magical things we've noticed to work in the Dead Zone. Usually that's a place where no magic or technology is functioanl. There's a lot of information about that, though, so I'll let you read about it on your own time."
courageous_wit: (Think)

[personal profile] courageous_wit 2013-07-26 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't suppose it could embarrass you specifically," Hermione mused, "unless someone was with you who was doing something embarrassing. See, the journal can pick up spoken as well as written words. So if a person were to say something or make an embarrassing noise, that could be recorded on the journal for everyone to hear."
courageous_wit: (Somber)

[personal profile] courageous_wit 2013-07-27 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes." No beating around the bush with this one. "People can get hurt... They can even die. During the last change, a woman we met was killed." She swallowed, eyes shutting as the image played back in her mind.

"Usually death has its own rules, but she wasn't a resident in the castle. I don't think..." Hermione pulled herself together. "We just have to be careful and fight together, if it comes to that."
courageous_wit: (Serious)

[personal profile] courageous_wit 2013-07-28 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
"There is no 'normally', Castiel. Horrible things happen. Sometimes people lose their minds, or sometimes the castle does something horrible to us. We fight whatever comes our way." She couldn't explain it, not without telling him more than one could deal with when they first arrived.

"When people die here," Hermione said, "they don't stay dead. They usually come back in two weeks."
courageous_wit: (Uhh)

[personal profile] courageous_wit 2013-07-28 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
"That's an excellent question. Just one of many we wrestle with. The best I can figure is that the castle gives up some of its energy to bring us back. It sounds odd, but it's true."

She didn't know how else to explain it. Really, it made no sense for people to be alive after they died.
courageous_wit: (Talk)

[personal profile] courageous_wit 2013-07-28 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're quite welcome. I'm glad to help." She smiled at him. "I'm sure you'll be having more people welcome you soon. I'll see you later, Castiel." Sure they were in a large city now, but they would get back to the castle soon, and it was much smaller. More chances to run into the trenchcoat-wearing man.