"I see," he says, as if he does. Look at her, really looks. Sees... something he can't quite make sense of, not fully. 'More' is the gist he gets. Not inhuman. But his senses are... limited here. She could be a number of things. She could be something else - new places, Castiel reminds himself. Different rules apply.

"What kind of research do you conduct?"

She has is attention more than before that much is certain.

Research, however, can mean a number of things. So can a vested interest.

Castiel is not blind to the fact that they've moved from talking along the same wavelength, to carefully circling. She holds some things back, so does he.

Interest, indeed.