Mission: Failure... [OTA]

[trenchcoat_angl]

Looking curiously at his surroundings, Castiel wondered where the Trickster had sent him. He could remember what happened, but something just didn't seem right...

"I'm getting you two out of here," he said while putting his hands up towards the two and holding up two fingers in hope to transport them out of the place.

Castiel looked at the ground,

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[fathersam]

Sam was walking meditatively through the park as well, he was in his rough, brown Franciscan habit and his feet were bare despite the snow and cold mud. Lent was approaching, and something else -- his time here was growing short, he could sense it.

He was being, he had to admit it to himself, self-indulgently ascetic, while he could. When he returned to his time and place it would be to take up the ornate brocaded mantle of the Archbishop, Papal Nuncio to Argentina, attender of banquets, political figure, employer of servants.

Sam cherished to himself these last few weeks of being just 'Father Sam.'

[trenchcoat_angl]

He saw the man walk by and tilted his head a little, looking at the man curiously. Castiel wondered if this man could tell him where he was, unless this was teh Trickster's doing of course. He got up and carefully approached the man. "Excuse me?"

[fathersam]

The tall, black man stopped and looked at the speaker with a serene smile.

"Yes, my son?" He didn't usually use the traditional greeting with strangers, as some people took offense, but his mind had been in the past when he was spoken to.

"If I may call you that." He added quickly, in apology.

[trenchcoat_angl]

While looking the man over, Castiel figured this man to be a preist. He ignored the statement and asked, "Where am I?"

[fathersam]

"Oh, a new arrival. You are in a village called Haurvatat, it seems to be outside of normal space and time. It draws people in from many times and worlds, even some who were dead in their worlds, and keeps them here for reasons we don't understand."

[trenchcoat_angl]

He nodded, taking in the information. Castiel said, "How are we supposed to leave? I have a task to complete."

[fathersam]

"Some say that there is a lesson we are to learn, or a task we are to complete here.There are those here who were dead in their worlds, and they do not have to leave."

[trenchcoat_angl]

Castiel thinks to himself, wondering if he could find God here... "I'm not dead. I have already died once. My father would surely bring me back if I had died."

[fathersam]

Sam would have said that one could find God everywhere--even among suffering slaves at the bottom of a mine, but he hadn't been asked. Died once and brought back? Interesting. Sam smiled, he had been here too long to doubt the young man out of hand -- the universe was full of wonders.

"Do you think that there might be something you are to learn then?" Sam was ebony skinned, tall and muscular, a perfect type of bantu-warrior, but his accent and tones were of a gentle, Irish scholar.

[trenchcoat_angl]

"I do not know," Castiel admitted. Maybe he was sent here by his father to learn about something. Something he had no clue of.

"I'll keep you words in mind."

[fathersam]

"If you can think of any way I can be of help to you, I am in the church there most hours of most days -- or they will know how to reach me." Sam pointed to the steeple.

[trenchcoat_angl]

Castiel gave a slow nod. "Thank you."

[fathersam]

Sam looked worried, something about this young man struck him as particularly unworldly.

"That building is the hotel. They will have a room for you, a place to get out of the cold. Tell the people at the front desk your name." His head cocked to the side, he considered him.

"Would you like me to go with you?"

[trenchcoat_angl]

"Yes." Truthfully, Castiel knew he might become a little lost if he went on his own. "What is your name?"

[fathersam]

Sam sighed with relief that his help was accepted.

"I am Samuel Panda - Father Sam they call me here. What may I call you?"

[trenchcoat_angl]

Castiel gave a small bow of his head. "Father."

"Castiel. I am an angel of the Lord."