CHAPTER TWO.
I waited outside with Sam while Dean ordered the food in a take out cafe. Neither Sam nor I spoke, but the silence was unsettling. My thoughts drifted to Castiel, and I wished once again he was here.
I frowned suddenly when I heard the sounds of approaching hooves, coming closer with every stride. I straightened and looked down the road, remembering Cas' warning of beware the horseman on the black steed, but I saw nothing. The sounds of hooves came closer still, and by the closeness of them, I should have seen something.
"What's wrong?" Sam asked when he saw my alertness.
"Can't you hear that?" A horse, coming closer?" I asked, turning a frown up at the younger Winchester.
"A horse? No, I can't hear a horse!" Sam replied, frowning back at me. "Perhaps you can hear what Castiel's hearing. You know that freaky soul mate thing you've got going on plays with your mind!"
"Maybe," I said, but I wasn't convinced.
It felt like I was hearing something where I was, not where Cas was. The sound was far too near, far too real to be an echo from Cas. I walked slightly away from Sam, further down the road, trying to see the source of the unseen hooves, squinting down the hazy road, but still there was nothing to see.
I flinched slightly when a gust of wind passed right by me, as though of someone's passing, but I saw nothing only felt it.
I turned back, trying to make out something, but soon forgot about the unseen wind, when I noticed that Sam had gone ....
to be continued ....