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Pedes conjunctim.

“Hey,” Dean said brightly. “So I kind of told everyone.”
“I heard,” Castiel replied, dry as anything. “Would it be inappropriate to kiss you here.”
Dean laughed then, riding high on adrenalin and triumph and adoration, and held out a hand. “It’s bonfire night, Cas. Give it an hour and kissing will look pretty tame.”
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Pelion, with all its woods.
a March-Stalkers Mighty extra

Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size
The gods they challenge, and affect the skies:
Heaved on Olympus tottering Ossa stood;
On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.
Homer’s Odyssey, trans. Alexander Pope. (Book IX.)

Written for the Sabriel mini-bang, 2012. Artwork by machidieles.

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Author’s notes and readers’ questions.

In which I ramble. There are a few issues here that I felt like addressing, and some links to replies that questions that readers have asked in comments. If you have any questions - about the story, about the verse, about authorial decisions, about what happened off screen - leave a comment to this post and I ( Read more... )

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Passus X: Pes sinister.

“Dean,” he rasped simply; only Dean’s name had never sounded like that before, all that possession and promise and wonder. And what had Dean ever done to deserve that?
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Passus X: Pes dexter.

“Lucifer did what he did for power,” Castiel rumbled, deeper than the demon and more visceral, from the heart and not the throat. “I did it because my people were dying.”
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Passus IX: Pes sinister.

Dean had his suspicions that was Castiel’s “something is bothering me but I am a stubborn son of a bitch and I have to deal with it myself so I won’t tell you what’s going on” face.
That expression was going to need a catchier name. Castiel seemed to make it pretty often.
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For my own curiosity, and because I am restless and looking for distraction from certain RL things. Feel free to elaborate on any answers in comments, and bear in mind that I've a Sam/Gabriel scene from when they were Outside, just after they changed him back into human-shaped, queued up to post next week for the Sabriel minibang.

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Passus IX: Pes dexter.

“Choose your words very carefully,” Gabriel advised, sweet as arsenic in the sugar bowl.
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