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quest: a lazy jelly

[personal profile] unwings 2023-02-10 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Though he did sign up for this work, Cas can’t help but wonder, around the fifth or sixth time a crab has managed to claw into the fragile skin between his fingers while he’s refilling a bucket, if this is karmatic revenge for the incident involving a certain witcher’s trademark hair and a ritual goose.

Waterlogged trenchcoat and heavy layers set aside, sleeves rolled up to his elbows, seawater soaking the trousers that cling to his thighs, cas is looking haggard, with wet sand caked to one side of his face, the evidence of a tumble after a stray jellyfish tendril gave his leg a shock. The sensible shoes might’ve come off too, if it weren’t for the swarm of offended crabs snapping at his ankles and legs in protest of the bumbling feet stomping around on their sand-lawn.

Dean, of course, has somehow managed to secure the job of bucket escort, taking the full buckets to the team irrigating the beached jellyfish, and the empty ones back to cas, and the surrounding crustacean horde, to refill. ]


Any time you might like to trade jobs, enjoy this… refreshing ocean water with your much taller boots, I’d be happy to hand over bucket filling duties. [ Cas huffs out, pointed and petty. ] Just, any time at all, Dean.

[ this is what he gets for taking jaskier’s advice on choosing fashionable over practical in this world. ]