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Lost At Sea (But I Am Home) by there_must_also_be_a_lock (there_must_be_a_lock)
Fandoms: Supernatural
12 May 2020
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Summary
Dean’s always been oddly fascinated by the old maps he finds in the archives and the library of the bunker. There are whole cabinets of them, some organized neatly in labeled drawers, some just a messy jumble of yellow-edged rolls of paper. Some are recent. Others are decades old, hand-drawn on thick parchment with labels in spidery calligraphy.
The oldest ones were drawn before the world had been fully explored, back when entire continents were still a mystery. There are drawings at the edges of those maps, tiny, impeccably inked, depicting sea dragons looping in and out of the water, or giant squid emerging from the waves of ink to take down huge wooden ships. In flourishing script there’s the annotation, “here there be monsters.”
There’s something ironic about that. Monsters aren’t confined to the edges of Dean’s world, and they don’t lurk in the terrifying unknown dark places. They’re abso-fucking-lutely everywhere.
Monsters are easy, always have been. It’s people he doesn’t get.
Series
- Part 4 of Marked