I didn't get where Sam's soul was until Castiel said he would know if it was found. Then I just nodded, like after a piece of music ends; it felt right.
It's a cruel canon, where the angels were told to bow down to humans, not just because we had been given the brand new gift of Free Will, but because even without it we may have been an improvement on angels. Sure, humans have done terrible things. (In our universe, we've at least imagined all the terrible things.) But most of us don't do them. In the SPN universe, there seem to be fewer angels who would balk at torture in the entire Host than there were good people in Sodom.
Or perhaps I should just say that your Michael chose an entirely worthy representative in Zachariah. He doesn't even seem to understand that there's no imperative forcing him to give Dean memories of raping Sam, that it's about hurting Dean in any way he can think of. At least Zachariah knew he was being petty; that he was a petty being. Michael can't see himself at all.
our blue world
It's a cruel canon, where the angels were told to bow down to humans, not just because we had been given the brand new gift of Free Will, but because even without it we may have been an improvement on angels. Sure, humans have done terrible things. (In our universe, we've at least imagined all the terrible things.) But most of us don't do them. In the SPN universe, there seem to be fewer angels who would balk at torture in the entire Host than there were good people in Sodom.
Or perhaps I should just say that your Michael chose an entirely worthy representative in Zachariah. He doesn't even seem to understand that there's no imperative forcing him to give Dean memories of raping Sam, that it's about hurting Dean in any way he can think of. At least Zachariah knew he was being petty; that he was a petty being. Michael can't see himself at all.
Fascinating, rich, and satisfying.