Oh, whole centuries. Michael's amusement does not fade. He may not remember his past beyond the certainty that he has been alive for millions of years prior to Abraxas, but that's enough. Even though he's now lived long past a normal human lifespan and has become a divine being in his own right, Dean is and always will be his junior. Between the two of them, Michael has the elder sibling privileges and is entitled to make exaggerated comments about his youth.
(Besides, hadn't he been sensitive about his age showing, at one point? Michael has the vague sense that this would have been a sore point, once upon a time. Not now. Something he left behind along with his mortality, maybe.)
Michael isn't going to examine that former fear of heights too closely. He doesn't want to breathe new life into it. There's a confidence in his abilities not unlike Michael's own absolute conviction, and that will do for now. He's still going to keep a critical eye on his technique once they take off.
Dean gets a metaphorical slap on the back to get things moving again, as if that mental stutter were him choking.
Since you won't stop thinking about it, I know as much as you know.
And now he's being treated to Guillermo del Toro's filmography, great, thanks. Hellboy and Pan's Labryrinth are very pertinent to the matter at hand. He has access to the full breadth of Dean's memories if he wanted it, all eight hundred plus years of them, but that's a lot of history to immerse them in all at once. He doesn't need to know everything. Just the thoughts and feelings that impact this collaborative effort.
Dean gets his mind back on track on his own and Michael fold his wings back out of the way. Giving up a feather willingly is no more painful than shedding them.
I trust you know what to do with that.
This part, he has no doubt about. He feels the outline of the divine blade in Dean's hand, their hand, is intimately familiar. Dean is like him. He has been a soldier, a fighter of one form or another as long as he can remember. He's had a weapon in his hand since he was a child, probably too young to be holding one (to outside eyes, anyway; to Michael, it is perfectly natural).
He'll allow a few practice strikes, if Dean is so inclined, but he doesn't cover that he wants to get on with this and get moving.
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(Besides, hadn't he been sensitive about his age showing, at one point? Michael has the vague sense that this would have been a sore point, once upon a time. Not now. Something he left behind along with his mortality, maybe.)
Michael isn't going to examine that former fear of heights too closely. He doesn't want to breathe new life into it. There's a confidence in his abilities not unlike Michael's own absolute conviction, and that will do for now. He's still going to keep a critical eye on his technique once they take off.
Dean gets a metaphorical slap on the back to get things moving again, as if that mental stutter were him choking.
Since you won't stop thinking about it, I know as much as you know.
And now he's being treated to Guillermo del Toro's filmography, great, thanks. Hellboy and Pan's Labryrinth are very pertinent to the matter at hand. He has access to the full breadth of Dean's memories if he wanted it, all eight hundred plus years of them, but that's a lot of history to immerse them in all at once. He doesn't need to know everything. Just the thoughts and feelings that impact this collaborative effort.
Dean gets his mind back on track on his own and Michael fold his wings back out of the way. Giving up a feather willingly is no more painful than shedding them.
I trust you know what to do with that.
This part, he has no doubt about. He feels the outline of the divine blade in Dean's hand, their hand, is intimately familiar. Dean is like him. He has been a soldier, a fighter of one form or another as long as he can remember. He's had a weapon in his hand since he was a child, probably too young to be holding one (to outside eyes, anyway; to Michael, it is perfectly natural).
He'll allow a few practice strikes, if Dean is so inclined, but he doesn't cover that he wants to get on with this and get moving.