[That gets a wholehearted bark of laughter out of the angel, because he immediately pictures Dean's reaction to that question. And then Castiel's, which involves a lot of head-tilting.] You'd have to ask him that. Castiel is my brother. Another angel. Honestly, I don't know what's between them half the time other than they're connected with an invisible bungee cord. It might be sexual, or it might be some other form of codependency. Let's just say where one goes, the other follows.

[And that Balthazar's having trouble accepting that bond, for a number of reasons.]

Not mermaids, so much. I just...well, all right, I was having a conversation with a date one time, and I told her I thought manatees were rather charming because they look all smug and sleepy and they have these delightful bristly whiskers. She looked at me across the table and said, 'You just described yourself'. So now I like them even better.