[KQ] all the triumph overhead, disaster underneath

Noah

if there's a reason I'm still alive
when so many have died

The fact of what might happen today brought an anxiety and anticipation within the hunter that he had never felt before. As he stood there for a moment on the other side of the door as Hotaru, he waited for the sign that the once-General would be following on their heels like agreed. Dressed in his normal attire, the hunter even had his general bag slung over his shoulder. While he was here now with Hotaru as a matter of Halovian government business, he was still himself tried and true.

Just as Morgan gestured for them to sit down, the hunter received the transmission through the bond from the once-General. Swiftly, he closed the door. Then, Noah stepped up as Hotaru took a seat. Rather than sitting in his own chair, however, the hunter perched himself halfway on the arm of the chair. Again, another mannerism that was not unusual for the man. Eira took the seat, however, reclining on white haunches and curling her long tail around her paws and talons. Silently, like a guardian gargoyle the hunter listened as Hotaru recalled her experience in Torchline. It made his blood boil, and the heat rose beneath his oilskin collar.

When her questions turned to Halo's intentions and interactions with the war, Noah followed with his own statement: "I have been wondering the same thing as of late." Neutral, general, and what one would call normal for the hunter was the tone that wrapped itself around the words he spoke. He turned glacier eyes from Hotaru to Morgan, patient as he could for her response.

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Noah closes the door as Deimos asked. Then he sat on the arm of the chair next to Hotaru, and his companion sat in the chair. He asked Morgan about Halo's intentions following Hotaru's statement and questions.

Noah has:
- A canvas bag filled with: several rations of dried foods, a jar of salve, .
- Three hunting knives
- His companion

then I'm willing to
wait for it