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This device is meant to be a means of long-distance communication. It seems remarkably impractical.
Regardless, if you leave me a 'message' I will do my best to respond.
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But why were you there?
I'm sorry, it's difficult for me to keep hold of these thoughts.
[ There's another pause as he pulls up his conversation with Enoch again and reads it over, trying to remember what was confusing him so much before it slips through his metaphorical fingers again. ]
Humanity's free will and ability to question the will of God is and always has been its greatest blessing and curse. That's the plan for you. That's your purpose, just as mine is to serve unerringly.
But you received that gift as a result of Lucifer disobeying. That wasn't the plan. We were all shocked when it happened. There has never been a greater fury than when our Father discovered what Lucifer had done to His garden and His chosen people.
But if that was the plan all along, then why was He surprised?
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Maybe it wasn't part of the plan. Could someone have gotten hold of it and made changes while no one was looking?
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[ There's a flare of something like anger and indignation and confusion in him at the very suggestion, as if someone's just run up to him and started insisting that the world is flat. That in and of itself is also confusing, though. John's explanation makes sense. It would explain why all of his memories of any discussion of the plan before the fall of man are gone, if not how they were taken or by who. Why is the idea so upsetting to him? ]
That shouldn't be possible.
That isn't possible. No one could alter the course of God's creation without His knowledge.
Except Lucifer did. [ This isn't making any sense. It's getting difficult for him to focus on what he's talking about again. ]
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Could be he just hasn't been paying as much attention to it all as he should. And Lucifer's proof angels can disobey, him, right? Are there any other angels who could have disobeyed him? Ignored the plan or changed it when he was looking away? If you'd found that out, they might not want you to remember that.
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[ Like Anna, after he lead a squad of angels to where she had been hiding. ]
But I remember that. Usually they disappear for a time after being brought back, and if they resurface we're under strict orders not to talk to them about what happened or where they went.
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[He doesn't know where any of this is going, but Sherlock has told him in the past he's an excellent conductor of light and ideas. Maybe if he can find the right questions to ask, Castiel will find the answers that illuminate the truth for him.]
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We built a prison for him and threw him down into it, where he'll remain until the last battle. A few other angels have also been imprisoned indefinitely for their crimes, but in Heaven, where they can be watched more closely.
Imprisonment is separate from what happens to deserters, though.
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What happens to deserters?
speaking of lost tags; OOPS
And Lucifer was always going to break free someday. One of Heaven's greatest advantages was always that we could decide when that happened, and release him when our forces were at their strongest. Or at least, that's how it was justified to me.
In the most severe cases, they are executed. Most disappear for a time, though, and when they resurface they don't speak of their transgressions and return to their duties peacefully.
NO WORRIES
Castiel, the world might not be perfect, but it wouldn't be a good place for a lot of people if it were. Because "perfect" is subjective. The only place where perfect means anything objective is mathematics. We're human. We're flawed. You'd have to wipe out the human race, practically everything living to get something perfect. And even then if that's Heaven's idea of perfect, then who's it for? Not people.
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You shine in adversity. Maybe it was selfish, but I didn't want to see that end.
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Stopping it. You need to hold onto that thought, Castiel. Hope is what gets humans through a lot of the hardest times. Might work for you, too.
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