down here looking up

“That one’s dead,” he tells Dean. “I watched it, its entire life. Billions and billions of years, I watched it. It was huge – many, many times bigger than your sun. I was there when it was made, I was there as it burned and fostered life on the planet around it, and I was there as it burnt itself out and went supernova. I felt its heat on my wings and I heard the souls of the things it killed sing as they were pulled up to the Heaven of the gods they worshipped. I was there for the moment the first being pulled itself out of the roiling lava that covers most of the planet, the way water covers Earth. I watched their evolution, their growth, their civilisation. I was there, primarily, for those beings.”