[ That's the cost of finding yourself a family. And from how Castiel spoke of Dean to him, Geralt hasn't any doubt they're family. (Closer than, maybe.) They will be taken from you one day, and there isn't a way to prepare. Even if you've endured it a hundred times before, even if you know it's coming.
Deep down, he understands this is a better outcome than the worse that Dean feared. A death saving his friends—not a killing blow because he was no longer himself, taken over by a power he cannot control. Still. The loss isn't any less heavy for it. ]
We did what we could. As did you. [ Cold comfort, perhaps. He knows guilt when he sees it. Castiel wears it like a fucking wet blanket. ] But I know that makes it no less painful.
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Deep down, he understands this is a better outcome than the worse that Dean feared. A death saving his friends—not a killing blow because he was no longer himself, taken over by a power he cannot control. Still. The loss isn't any less heavy for it. ]
We did what we could. As did you. [ Cold comfort, perhaps. He knows guilt when he sees it. Castiel wears it like a fucking wet blanket. ] But I know that makes it no less painful.