[the other dogs are given a scratch in turn as castiel instead takes a seat. it makes it easier to give them each their fair share of his attention. even if the majority of it is still fixed on tyke.]

They're dangerous. [the masks, of course. wearing his had brought back more than just a few ghosts from his past. but he'd already been used to speaking with lucifer long before the masks came in to play. and lucifer had at least talked back. the others- well, he doesn't think anybody here deserves to have to deal with their own ghosts in quite such a literal manner.]

I don't want you to get hurt. Nobody here does. But if you stay here, people are going to keep worrying about you.