Gabriel's only excuse for what he said - well, it wasn't an excuse, really. He didn't need one, after all - was some vague notion that maybe if he flooded Castiel's mind with it, the other would be able to comprehend the use and meaning of sarcasm.

So far, it wasn't working. Big surprise. He might as well have been speaking Klingon.

- thinking of it, he really needed to figure out what had been going on last night. The fact that those two kids had been speaking languages foreign to him - two different ones from what he could hear, no less! - was still quite bothersome. Not knowing what was going on was old hat, but that... that was au naturel.

The question snapped him out of his thoughts, but not enough to catch him off guard as Castiel was clearly hoping. "Call me curious. Family's been dropping off the grid lately, you know. Your whole regeneration schtick isn't exactly old hat... and for all the infinite cosmic wisdom, not knowing why something is happening is pretty damn annoying."