hi john winchester quick question - why did you leave salmondean alone in that motel room when you were hunting the shtriga? why would you need to? in the showâs lore - the shtriga works in annual cycles and goes through one town, ONE, each time. meaning that since the creature went after sam, presumably the motel was in the same town where the hunt was. so why did you need to leave the motel for days? where did you go? and moreover - we see in the ânowâ part of this episode that the shtriga isnât particular with the order of the children. sometimes it takes the youngest first (two queens kidâs family), sometimes the oldest (the lay me down to sleep girl from the start of the ep) - what was the plan if itâs gone after dean first? samâs how old here? four? five? you told dean to protect sam, but did you even think that dean mightâve been the first victim?