[ castiel doesn't know how to read that grin, never knows how to read it. he'd think dean was making fun of him, bullying him, if he didn't know better, but he still doesn't entirely understand why it is that dean lets him ramble on like this, but he does, he always does.
still, talk nerdy to me, baby - it's enough to have him flushing warm and hot, and castiel is thankful for the darkness to cover it, even if he's sure he's burning bright as a star himself. everything about dean is so.. disarming, and that stupid, slanted smirk has castiel's belly twisting uncomfortably, warmth tingling at the base of his spine. he promptly ignores it. ]
A.. um, yes, a, err, a gamma-ray burst--
[ he goes on, then clears his throat, pulling himself together to look into dean's face again. science. think science. don't think about dean's too-pretty mouth, or the way it sounds when he says baby in a voice that low, leaning close. ]
It's the brightest, most powerful explosion in the universe. That we know of, at least. You see, when stars die.. particularly, when very big, massive stars die, they collapse into black holes, or neutron stars, or something of the like. Sometimes, if that star is spinning very rapidly, when it collapses in on itself, its energy.. erupts out.
[ exhaling sharply, castiel's brows draw together thoughtfully, a deep crease appearing between them as he lifts his hands again and pinches together his index fingers and thumbs, as if he's pantomiming holding a golf ball, or a marble. ]
Imagine a grape between your fingers. If you crush that grape, hard and fast, what's going to happen? It's going to split, and its juice and guts are going to burst out of either end. The same thing sometimes happens to a star.
[ he touches his index fingers together, then draws them outward from one another in a straight line, pointing in opposite directions. ]
These concentrated jets of radiation are violent and deadly, they spring out of the poles of the dying star and fly hundreds or thousands or millions of light years into space, obliterating everything in their path. The energy required is absolutely staggering, Dean, there's nothing in the known universe more powerful, or deadly. It would be a literal death beam, frying our planet.
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still, talk nerdy to me, baby - it's enough to have him flushing warm and hot, and castiel is thankful for the darkness to cover it, even if he's sure he's burning bright as a star himself. everything about dean is so.. disarming, and that stupid, slanted smirk has castiel's belly twisting uncomfortably, warmth tingling at the base of his spine. he promptly ignores it. ]
A.. um, yes, a, err, a gamma-ray burst--
[ he goes on, then clears his throat, pulling himself together to look into dean's face again. science. think science. don't think about dean's too-pretty mouth, or the way it sounds when he says baby in a voice that low, leaning close. ]
It's the brightest, most powerful explosion in the universe. That we know of, at least. You see, when stars die.. particularly, when very big, massive stars die, they collapse into black holes, or neutron stars, or something of the like. Sometimes, if that star is spinning very rapidly, when it collapses in on itself, its energy.. erupts out.
[ exhaling sharply, castiel's brows draw together thoughtfully, a deep crease appearing between them as he lifts his hands again and pinches together his index fingers and thumbs, as if he's pantomiming holding a golf ball, or a marble. ]
Imagine a grape between your fingers. If you crush that grape, hard and fast, what's going to happen? It's going to split, and its juice and guts are going to burst out of either end. The same thing sometimes happens to a star.
[ he touches his index fingers together, then draws them outward from one another in a straight line, pointing in opposite directions. ]
These concentrated jets of radiation are violent and deadly, they spring out of the poles of the dying star and fly hundreds or thousands or millions of light years into space, obliterating everything in their path. The energy required is absolutely staggering, Dean, there's nothing in the known universe more powerful, or deadly. It would be a literal death beam, frying our planet.
[ and he's.. excited about this. ]