xix) Dusk


He stands outside on the front porch. His wife and daughter sit at the dinner table, hidden by white, silk curtains and flickering candle light. He has been here before, he realizes.

Orange bleeds into black in the night sky. The moon chases the sun across the sky as a cat does to a mouse, playful, unintentionally harmful. This is his life, an endless cycle of safety in the sunlight's warmth before the cooling darkness and the stars cover his soul.

He tips his head back in subservience and stills.

Jimmy Novak dies at dusk as Castiel's eyes bleed blue.