[ you're gonna be okay, she tells him, and castiel's brows arch. funny, to be on the opposite side of that statement after so many days (weeks? months?) in the pit. immediately, the contact when she pulls him to his feet sends a gentle burst of warmth washing all through his limbs. cas nearly smiles, though it may looks delirious at this point. ] I appreciate the optimism.

[ the light in the cavern was low, but he's fairly certain she wasn't one of those captured down there with him, so she must still be on the outside - the first person he's seen outside that godforsaken shithole. he's movin', as instructed, no issue with that, but he's talking while he does, rapidly, unsure how long he'll have in the horizon before something shuts him back out. ]

You need to tell the others - there's a creature, enormous, made of vines and writhing flesh. It came from the shrines. [ i let it out of the shrines, but there's no time to kick himself over that. another wave of chills and shooting shooting through the lesions hits him, and cas hisses as he gets back to the info dump. ] It's rampaging through the cavern, and going, I don't know, somewhere. The search party are in danger if they cross it.

[ possibly, though it did seem to be avoiding the summoned in the pit. that's no promise it won't crush the others underfoot. ]