The Silent Sky, for jaelijn

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Title: The Silent Sky
Recipient: jaelijn
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~5,100
Warnings: blood, end!verse, character death
Author's Notes: thanks to my lovely beta fannishlissSummary: (End!verse set before the events of 5x04) Castiel gets early morning guard duty at Camp Chitaqua. He climbs high up the nearby mountain, and watches the valley below. Dawn is the only time

Comments

[quickreaver]

EEEEEE! I loved this! Part fable, part End of Days. The voices were so perfect, especially Cas, in his End!verse guise. The whole things was twisty and visual and just delicious. Well done!

[monicawoe]

::smooch::
thank you!
I do love me some end!verse. It's just so wonderfully bleak.

[freya922]

Wow! This was horrifying, fascinating!! I love how each archangel left behind a distinctive !feather. Poor Gabriel! And Sam...! Great imagery and emotional power.

[monicawoe]

thank you!
I love the ideas of the angels' feathers manifesting physically, and I assume to other angels they must look unique.
Glad you liked the imagery- end!verse is such a great setting to explore.

[jaelijn]

Ahhh, I love this! Thank you so much! :)
The images you used are marvelous, very powerful and almost movie-like, and then it's full of emotions that are almost understated, but all the more heart-wrenching. There is always something deeply depressing about Endverse, of course, but I really like how you captured that without drawing it out too much - it's like a punch in gut (which for endverse fic is a good thing, of course!).
Plus, Gabriel's appearance - yeah! And also: Ouch! :'(
Love it! Can't wait for the reveal so I can add this to my reclist and give proper credit!

[monicawoe]

So glad you enjoyed the fill!
end!verse is so wonderful for imagery. It's so bleak, which makes playing with colors and light and dark extra fun. (I always see the stories in my head before I write them)
The idea of Gabriel and Lucifer meeting in this context was just too interesting to pass up, even if it happened off-screen. Plus being able to have Castiel recognize him (before Gabriel is revealed as himself in canon) was a neat opportunity.

[brightly_lit]

Woooow. FANTASTIC. I like a happy ending, but a well-earned all-is-lost story is something I enjoy once in a blue moon, and this was a great one! I LOVE your descriptions of nature, characters were spot-on, all in all so beautifully written. And I loved that every angel's feathers were different colors! Great job!

And now, some of my favorite lines:

You mourned for the celestial equivalent of two seconds

"Times like these, a true vessel makes all the difference."

His back arches, and he can feel his grace spilling out of him. He sees himself cut wide open, like a gutted fish, as everything that made him an angel drifts up into the air. His grace spreads out thinner and thinner, until it dissipates.

Thanks for writing--I could read Cas-in-the-end!verse stories all day, just really spend time with human!Cas, and I loved the opportunity to do so. Brava!!

[monicawoe]

Glad you liked the read! I do love end!verse, and being able to show other angels (and their feathers) in this setting was really neat.

[absenthe_wrae]

Omigosh, this was fabulous.

[monicawoe]

thanks so much!