"Set up shop doesn't sound familiar," Castiel spoke up quickly. Crowley had asked him to. "Wasn't he caged? Why would the Archangels be content to let him walk free, just so long as he didn't do so in Heaven? What point is there in that? Weren't they at all concerned for humanity--particularly given that vessels don't exist here as they do in my world? Why leave him free to act when there isn't even a small segment of the population he would be compelled to not slaughter? If not humanity, then the schedule at least! What would prevent him starting the End early?"
None of which Crowley might have an answer for, he realized shortly after. He hadn't exactly been on that side of things, from the sound of it. Castiel stopped, took a breath, let it out.
"I suppose I should have established a point of departure first, before asking. But I hadn't expected the differences to be this great." He looked at Crowley, though his hand didn't leave the pommel of the blade. They may be having a relatively relaxed conversation now, but they'd come out here to do it with good reason. "Back home, he was locked away. Sealed in a cage for hundreds of thousands of years, until he became little more than legend, even in Hell. Demons regarded him the way we did Father. Virtually none of them could recall the last time they'd seen him but they trusted that he was somewhere, that he would come back and fight for them. Support them in their destructive efforts. Only in their case, there was some merit to the belief."
It wasn't a particularly necessary barb, but though they had reconciled his Father's conspicuous absence during that time still stung.
"The demon Lilith ruled Hell, not him, and when the time came she started breaking the Seals that held the Cage shut. I was told--many of us were told--at the time that we were trying to stop her. But it was really an effort to distract those of us who would have been unable to reconcile ending the world with protecting it, until it was too late to argue the point. While we chased her mayhem all over the globe, the Archangels were making sure she succeeded wherever we weren't. The breaking of the Seals opened the Cage. We won by pushing Lucifer back in, Michael with him. The key was the combined rings of the Horsemen--I was expecting a similar artifact to be necessary here as well."
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Date: 2018-08-17 06:01 am (UTC)None of which Crowley might have an answer for, he realized shortly after. He hadn't exactly been on that side of things, from the sound of it. Castiel stopped, took a breath, let it out.
"I suppose I should have established a point of departure first, before asking. But I hadn't expected the differences to be this great." He looked at Crowley, though his hand didn't leave the pommel of the blade. They may be having a relatively relaxed conversation now, but they'd come out here to do it with good reason. "Back home, he was locked away. Sealed in a cage for hundreds of thousands of years, until he became little more than legend, even in Hell. Demons regarded him the way we did Father. Virtually none of them could recall the last time they'd seen him but they trusted that he was somewhere, that he would come back and fight for them. Support them in their destructive efforts. Only in their case, there was some merit to the belief."
It wasn't a particularly necessary barb, but though they had reconciled his Father's conspicuous absence during that time still stung.
"The demon Lilith ruled Hell, not him, and when the time came she started breaking the Seals that held the Cage shut. I was told--many of us were told--at the time that we were trying to stop her. But it was really an effort to distract those of us who would have been unable to reconcile ending the world with protecting it, until it was too late to argue the point. While we chased her mayhem all over the globe, the Archangels were making sure she succeeded wherever we weren't. The breaking of the Seals opened the Cage. We won by pushing Lucifer back in, Michael with him. The key was the combined rings of the Horsemen--I was expecting a similar artifact to be necessary here as well."