Candy : That’s a Winged Skulls song, isn’t it?
Castiel : Hey… It looks like I’ve finally made something of you, musically speaking!
Castiel : Can you see which one it is? It’s on their first album…
Candy : Eh… Let’s calm down. You know blind tests aren’t really my thing.
Castiel : It’s called ‘Beaten Paths’. And it’s thanks to her that I got into sound when I was ten.
Candy : Crazy, you’ve ever told me that before, I think.
Candy : In fact, I think I’ve always imagined you with a guitar…
Castiel : No. I don’t have an absolute ear for music or anything. In fact, we didn’t listen to much music at home.
Castiel : But my parents had got into the habit of always bringing me a little present from their travels…
Castiel : Most of the time it was something to do with the country they were returning from.
Castiel : Until that blessed day when my father didn’t have time to find me anything in Los Angeles.
Castiel : So, to maintain the tradition, he took a CD from me at random, in an airport shop.
Castiel : When I think back, it’s unlikely that this little band that was just starting out was sold there…
Castiel : As luck would have it sometimes. He chose this album because he liked the cover design.
Castiel : It was “Through the Rabbit Hole”… The greatest masterpiece of its generation…
Castiel : But I didn’t realise that until later. For me, that was the first real contact with rock.
Castiel : And it changed my life. I’m not sure why, but I became obsessed with that album.
Castiel : I played it until the hi-fi system in the living room burned out!
Castiel : Ask my parents if you don’t believe me!
Castiel : The fact is that a low-quality mini-system is not designed to take forty-three hours of loop playback…
Castiel : The next day, I put all my savings into a crappy CD player and off I went again !
Castiel : I realised that’s what I wanted to do. At school, there was a guy who played.
Castiel : As he had just bought his first electric guitar, he was kind enough to give me his old one.
Castiel : That’s how I learned music, by trying to find note after note of the score of “Beaten Paths”.
Castiel : I’ve worked like crazy, to make my fingers bleed, but in the end I got it right.
Castiel : So I moved on to the other songs on the album.
Castiel : And I never stopped… So yes, there’s no doubt that my life would have been very different…
Castiel : Without my father, and if I hadn’t blocked that song out at the time.
Candy : It’s cute. Almost creepy, but cute. You’re pretty obsessive, actually, when you get down to it.
Castiel : Not so much, if you count it. I only have two obsessions in my life. Music, and…
Castiel : I’ll let you guess which one is the other. Hint: I knew her in my last year of high school.
Candy :I didn’t say it bothered me, take note…
(We kissed tenderly in the glow of the flames).