Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down [Closed]

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

Dean had made sure to keep himself to the house. He was too worried about the next time he'd lose more memories to do much on the house expansions for now. It meant he spent his time pacing around like a caged tiger.

And then things shifted again. His hair became more mussed up, and his hands looked abraded and bleeding, like somebody who had to claw out of a coffin and the ground. He glanced around, trying to realize where he was. It wasn't Bobby's, and yet it seemed familiar. Everything was mixed up.

Sammy, he had to find his brother. Had to see him again after so long.

(ooc: closed, but open to anybody who'd be by the house or know the Winchesters well.)

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[on_errantry]

"Ready?" Rhiow asked. She trotted to the wizard's knot that would enclose the spell on itself, putting her front paws at the edge of the circle as she sat down.

She hadn't read a spell with another wizard in a very long time. Rhiow felt a sudden joyous thrill at that, her spirits lifting despite how badly she worried about Dean. "Let's begin."

"This is a hemispherical solid-state matter repellent barrier with an open-ended time parameter," she said with her wizardry behind it, and the universe sat up to pay attention.

[seeing-eye-cat.livejournal.com]

He put his whiskers forward at her and took the spot of his own name, joining his voice with hers. He worked to match paces for just a fraction of a second before falling back into it like the team-member he was.

"Power to be drawn from one thaumaturgical battery in the orath position, activated by power drawn from one Rhiw'aow and one Arhu." It felt good to be doing a larger wizardry like this with someone else, and he felt the universe lean in around them to listen, external sounds going quiet. He kept speaking as the pressure built up, and then they reached the word that was the equivalent of the wizard's knot, and power bled from him to put the spell into place.

[chosenfamily]

"Yeah, I know." He got the sheets pulled out so that Dean could get up. He didn't bother telling Dean that he knew exactly how many years of suck it had been. At the moment, it didn't matter.

"Rhiow's here," he said, stepping back. "Do you remember her?"

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

Dean thought for a moment. Rhiow... sounded familiar again, but some of the thoughts didn't match up.

"...She's a talking cat right?"

[on_errantry]

After the spell was set, Rhiow headed upstairs. She came in just in time to catch the tail end of the conversation. "It's interesting how the distortion only seems to be effecting memories from home," she said. "It's good of you to remember me."

She jumped up onto the bed, prancing into his lap. "We'll figure it out," she said. "And we'll fix it. And Ssam - we're going to have you raise the barrier when you need to."

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[seeing-eye-cat.livejournal.com]

Arhu trailed after Rhiow after giving the spell one last look over, ensuring that it was solidly in place and not likely to get jarred by a straying hyperstring. He didn't think it would, and he didn't See anything like that in the limited sense of it that he had.

Heading back into the ehhif dwelling, he hopped up the stairs and padded into the room, peering around curiously, a little drift of black and white that was trying to stay out of the way.

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[chosenfamily]

It was the master bedroom of the house, larger than the other bedrooms. There were two beds on opposite sides of the room, though only one was in use.

Sam rubbed his face. "Right. Okay. As long as it doesn't require anything too complicated. I may not be all that together when I need to do it. So the less I have to remember, the better."

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Dean rubbed the back of his head, "Just barely, Rhiow. Everything's all screwy up here. I guess with the Bleed and how messed up time is here, whatever it is can't touch it." Just a theory, but it would make about as much sense as anything else.

[on_errantry]

"You barely have to do anything at all," Rhiow reassured him. She jumped up onto Dean's bed, rubbing her head against his hand, trying to make him feel a little better about this crazy situation.

Then she sat back on her haunches and flexed her claws in a nearby tangle of hyperstrings, opening her claudication. She fished in it for a moment - to Sam and Dean it would look like her paw simply disappeared - and then flipped the thamaturgical battery out onto the bed. It glowed a soft greenish-blue. "All you have to do is drop this in the spot Arhu marked. D'hean, this is Arhu, by the way. He works with me at Grand Central."

[seeing-eye-cat.livejournal.com]

"Dai stiho, D'hean." He looked around, and then carefully crouched and leaped up to the end of the bed. Sitting down, he made himself comfortable.

[chosenfamily]

Sam picked up the battery, looking it over and nodding. "All right, I can do that. Might be best to leave this outside, so I can drop it in quickly."

The fact of the matter was, when Dean went back, there wasn't likely to be a lot of time before they needed to get that barrier up. "When I want to bring it down, do I basically do the reverse? Take the battery out and it stops working?" He reached over, trailing his fingers over Rhiow's back, taking a little comfort himself.

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"Uh, Dai'stiho Arhu. Thanks for your help," Dean replied, stumbling slightly on the pronciation. He appreciated Rhiow being close by, and had reached out to pet her lightly. He even moved his fingers to scritch at her cheeks and under her chin when she let him.

[on_errantry]

Oh, that was wonderful - this is why she hung around ehhif so much. She threw Arhu a sideways glance, her whiskers forward, as if she was telling him to take a hint. "If you need to drop the barrier, taking the battery out will work. And let us know if it drops before you're ready, we'll come through and pour some more power into it."

By which I mean I'll ask you to put some power into it, she said to Arhu in the mental dialect of the Speech. You're a lot younger than I am.

[seeing-eye-cat.livejournal.com]

He glanced away nonchalantly, having caught that look from her and not willing to acknowledge the idea just yet. She could indulge herself with the ehhif if she wanted to.

I can do that, he replied. He wasn't a powerhouse like Sif, but he was still a tom, and a damn fine wizard.

[chosenfamily]

"Well, I was just thinking about the best way to bring it down when we don't need it anymore." Sam shoved his hands into his pockets, considering. "Of course, it might just be easier if I message you to come and bring it down normally unless there's a major issue."

Dean thinking he was being chased by Hellhounds, for example. Trapping him in the house wouldn't help if that was the case.