User blog comment:A.J AL/Season six plot hole./@comment-5619706-20121215033415

Plausible. But as they were meeting in hell--Crowley may have had numerous enochian spells put up in  it to prevent Castiel from doing so. Afterall, Castiel still wasn't that powerful before the loan. Of course this is just me trying to make sense of things in light of what you posted.

I have to agree, if there were 7 billion souls in there (I really don't remember well), what you presented was a more logical move.

Unless of course, those numbers were part of the illusion of the endless queue to further infuriate and prolong the agony.