towerofanimus | ...and I know you hear their voices

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...and I know you hear their voices

Characters: Castiel and all of you.
Setting: Either of the two libraries: take your pick.
Format: Prose or brackactions, I'm okay with anything!~
Summary: The angel is hearing voices. Good thing or bad thing?
Warnings: TBA.

Castiel had been hearing voices since the return of the experimented tower occupants, but he ignored them, if only to feel part of a whole again.

However, the nondescript murmurs were louder now, and only just discernible. The angel frowned and closed his eyes; it wasn't the Host, because their presence would extend to more than just voices. No, these voices seemed to be coming from the tower itself, like in the cathedral.

"Strange."

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The library - more specifically, one of the computers IN the library - had become a place of refuge for Ψiioniic. The computer was stationary, for one thing... no matter how his powers fluctuated or when he was looking at, the computer remained exactly where it had always been, not jumping out to surprise him from some random direction the way people now did.

Of course, it was a little difficult to follow what was on the screen when his vision twofold would abruptly switch to show him the screen as it would be several hours in the future, but he just waited patiently until he switched back to present vision.

The sound of someone speaking nearby drew his attention, however, and he turned to scan the room with white-coated eyes. "Hello? Who'th there?"

From a nearby bookshelf Taiki was watching. Sanshi was with him holding his hand and they were watching the man who claimed to be an angel. He had been nice to Taiki on his first day, but that was probably only to make Taiki feel at ease. He had known a lot of things, Taiki was sure he was part of this. Probably a spy, maybe he had once been an angle but now...

Who knew. Taiki watched cautiously.

He was really trying his best to ignore that feeling of being watched. Really. Except it followed him everywhere. Like... whoever it was had nothing better to do than keep tabs on him. It was disconcerting. And the best way of keeping your mind occupied was to work.

Honestly, Sam had entered the library to look again for any information he might have missed. The need to get out of the tower was becoming increasingly desperate, and there just had to be some kind of clue that he may have overlooked.

He certainly didn't expect to find Castiel.

Initial surprise was overcome by suspicion. Um, if he was here then why hadn't he approached Sam? Surely the angel would still know if he was here regardless if he had been cut off from the mojo or not. Unless this wasn't Cas, or at least the Cas he knew. Maybe he was the one who had been watching him all this time... reporting to the enemy and keeping Sam from figuring out what was going on. Except... if Sam couldn't even trust Castiel then what about the rest of the people here? What about his own brother?

That did it. Thinking of his brother had Sam hearing Dean's disapproval in his head for doubting Cas, and ultimately it brought him to a final decision.

"Cas."

Castiel turned to the external voice, one he heard through his vessel's ears instead of in his head. This one, another troll, looked like an older version of one he met before. The one with the lisp. Even the number of flame colored horns on his head matched, albeit they were longer on this one.

"Hello, troll. I am Castiel."

Castiel felt two pairs of eyes watching him, the presence familiar to him. Turning to the two, he nodded at Taiki's guardian demon, then looked down at him.

"Hello, Taiki."

When Castiel found Dean in the cafeteria the other day, he knew Sam would be close by. He should thank the Doctor the next time he meets him; the suggestion box did work... but it took longer than expected.

Nevertheless, the younger Winchester was here, with the older, and Castiel managed to look relieved even with his poker face on.

"Hello Sam."

Well, the human had obviously encountered trolls before. Ψiioniic was starting to get used to the reaction. Well, it was only fair, since his first thought was usually 'hey, another human'.

"Hello, Castiel, I'm The Ψiioniic," he answered just as politely. "What'th strange?"

"Hello Castiel," Taiki's voice was barely a whisper he tried to quiet the feeling of suspision that filled him. He shouldn't even talk to him, what if he was just learning all their weaknesses and reporting back to the tower leaders?

"What are you doing?"

"The voices," he replied, staring at Ψiioniic curiously. "They're getting louder."

While he knew that trolls are biologically different from humans, Ψiioniic seemed a lot more different that other trolls he encounted before.

"I am listening, Taiki," came the simple answer as the angel went back to listening to the voices. They're still muted and distant, but they were there. Castiel just had to listen hard enough.

"Listening?" What was he listening for? Instructions from those that ran this tower? Taiki didn't move from behind his bookshelf as he watched.

"Yes. There are new voices that do not come from the cathedral floor," he explains, shifting slightly. Murmurs, whispers, sometimes yelling; they're all muted, so he couldn't make it out.

Honestly, it was bittersweet. Castiel was his friend, of course Sam would be relieved to see him. Then again, if Cas was here than there was some real proof behind the note reading that their world was destroyed.

Something he actually would have asked Cas about in normal circumstances, but considering the whole rebelling against heaven thing...

"How long have you been awake?"

Taiki frowned, "I don't hear anything." He said still suspicious and so acting a little ruder than he usually would. He didn't hear anything at all apart from when he went on certain floors and that wasn't new, those voices had always been there.

"Really? I hadn't notithed..." Ψiioniic said, tilting his head and trying to focus on the voices that always screamed in the back on his mind. They didn't seem any louder to him, but then his powers weren't working very reliably at the moment. "You hear the voices of the doomed, too? I didn't know there were humanth with that power."

"The voices of the doomed?" Castiel tilted his head, still staring at the troll. "Perhaps they are, but they are still muted, and I cannot seem to separate them."

At the mention of 'human', the angel shook his head. "I am not a human. I am an angel of the Lord."

"You cannot hear them?"

Castiel hid the surprised tone in his voice well. Then again, kirins are a different breed from angels altogether, so that might be the reason.

"They talk to me."

The angel looked up at the taller male, head tilted at the familiar angle.

"I have been awake for many months now, Sam," he replied, blue eyes slightly unfocused as the voices started to mutter and whisper again. "I have been awake since the first day."

"I wish they were muted for me," Ψiioniic sighed. "They're alwayth screaming at me. It's thtrange how many different people there are here who look like the humanth but aren't. What Lord do you therve? Are you a slave, too?" He didn't know what an angel was, but maybe it was like him saying he was a Helmsman of the Condesce. Only he'd said it like angel was his species, or something.

Wait a minute...

Sam's eyebrows furrowed in a thoughtful expression. Here he was thinking Castiel had probably just gotten here with Dean and himself not too long ago, or shortly after/before. Nope. There goes the buzzer telling him he got the answer wrong. But, if Cas had been here for months then...

He was about to ask the other what was the last thing he remembered, his mind already buzzing, except Cas suddenly seemed to waiver right in front of him.

"Hey." It was said not harsh and authoritative, because Sam wasn't trying to use it like someone would snap their fingers in front of someone's nose to bring them back to focus. It was softer, more like a question of are you alright? in disguise.

"No." He drew closer to Sanshi still worried that Castial was working for them and would try and hurt Taiki.

"What do they tell you to do?"

Ah, right. Troll culture was very different from human culture.

"I serve God. He is my Father and my Creator, and this vessel I occupy is human," he explained, ignoring the voices for now. "As far as I understand, your culture and beliefs are different compared to the humans."

"It is hard to tell," the angel said truthfully. "Some of them whisper, others are screaming, all of them muted in some way."

Castiel focused back on Sam's face at the soft 'hey', frowning just so. What was he doing? Oh, right, greeting the young hunter.

"Hello, Sam."

[Kanaya had been avoiding interaction since she was returned from surgery, but she knew that it could only last so long. People were bound to look for her or happen upon her forever. She wasn't hiding that well after all. She had taken to hiding in the library and reading all day, returning to her room to sleep to avoid death, and eating the bare minimum.]

[She was returning a book to its proper place and searching for another when she heard Castiel] What is so strange? [The phantom in her immediately reacts, she had secluded herself so much that the only energy it could sap was her own and it was eager for a new source, flailing inside of her trying to get closer to him]

"Are you frightened of them?" Taiki still didn't move closer but he was able to convince himself Castial wasn't going to hurt him at the moment when he was so worried about these voices.

Uh...

Either Cas had developed Alzheimer's in the months that he was here, or something was going on with him. Which, due to the nature of this tower, Sam was willing to bet years of his life that it was the latter.

Confusion transformed Sam's expression, and he took a few steps towards the angel. "What was that?"

"No," was Castiel's straightforward answer, and he moves closer to the small kirin. He sensed Taiki's fear, which made him confused, since the kirin seemed likeable when they first met.

"Are you frightened of me?"

"What was what, Sam?"

For some reason, the Winchester seemed so much taller when he stepped closer. Taller than what Castiel could remember. And was that a shadow hiding behind him?

[ Castiel turns to the troll, frowning. There was something residing in her, a second lifeforce of sorts. Strange. ]

Hello Kanaya. You have something inside you.

Taiki shrank into Sanshi even more as the angle came closer and tears filled his eyes. "Yes... No... I'm sorry... I don't want to be." He looked up with wide confused eyes because he liked Castiel but he couldn't get the idea that he was a spy, here to hurt Taiki, out of his head.

[Oh Castiel, always the blunt one]

Yes, I do. Do you recall the blackout and the phantoms that roamed the halls during that time? One of those was forcefully placed inside of me.

Funny, because Sam suddenly had to resist looking over his shoulder, the hairs on the back of his neck standing up.

He could feel them watching him again. They were always watching...

Sam faltered for a brief moment, loosing his train of thought, but stubbornly he forced himself back on again. His curiosity become littered with concern now too. "You... restarted or something."

"God? Jutht one?" Ψiioniic blinked. Castiel had said it like he should automatically understand which god he was talking about, so it wasn't just that he only served one, it sounded like there only was one. "Wow yeah, that'th pretty different. We have a lot of godth, though I don't know anybody who serves them. I thuppose we were technically all created by them, though."

"Yes. Just Him." Castiel's eyes blurred over slightly as the voices started to whispershout at him again. He tried once again to focus on them, but he couldn't make out the difference.

"I do not wish to hurt you, Taiki," Castiel muttered, looking up at Sanshi. "Please take care of him. I have somewhere else to be."

The angel grunted, brows furrowed in confusion. Restarted? What did he mean?

"What do you mean, Sam?"

[ He frowns. ]

How?

Taiki nodded but the tears fell anyways. He didn't want to hurt him but he still might if he was told to. Taiki didn't want to hurt anyone but knew if his king ordered him to fight he would have to. How did he know angels wern't the same.

Sanshi nodded and wrapped Taiki in her arms, "He will come to no harm."

Well, without knowing what had happened it was kind of hard to explain what he meant.

Finally, he settled on, "you said hello to me twice." Which, probably wasn't a good way of explaining it. Castiel might get it though, or at least be as confused as he was.

"Thank you."

The voices overwhelmed him again, and Castiel stood still, blue eyes unfocused as he tried to concentrate, to focus on at least one of the voices. Unlike angel radio, he cannot tell which voice was which, making it all the more difficult for him.

That was strange indeed. Castiel cannot remember the first time he said hello to Sam, only the one before Sam said 'what was that'. Was his memory failing him? It couldn't be... he's an angel, he does not simply forget things.

"This is strange indeed."

Castiel didn't react the way Sam expected him too, and that made him suspicious. And Sam may have hidden it in his posture, but it was clear as day when he spoke.

"What's strange Cas?" Or better yet. "What's going on?"

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...and I know you hear their voices

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Have a paranoid Kirin ;;

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;n; /huggles

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