[se] we can't go on together

He didn't do much else than walk, pausing only to crouch down and accept the gift of a small kite from a smiling child. He knew the child to be related to one of the soldiers lost during the cultist attack and Eirachi destruction, so Noah accepted it with his own broad smile. When he stood back up, he caught the sight of Hotaru's familiar form and build coming through the crows and he opened his arms for her without hindrance. The hunter did not hesitate to take the woman into his arms. He didn't even hesitate as his hug tightened and he lifted her clear off the ground, the laughter continuing to echo through him and the joy infiltrating the attuned bond with no censoring. She was like a memory restored as they melted in to each other, as familiar as the tundra and as comforting as the Citadel walls. This hug no felt no different than how her hand had felt in his when they ascended to wardenhood together all those years ago, as if they had been made in the same mold. He breathed her name into her wild yellow hair and then set her back down, holding her shoulders at arms length as if he needed every moment and every breath between them to recommit her to memory. "How are you, Ru?" He asked simply, though his eyes wrinkled at the edges with the unmistakable happiness to see her. Noah Olson lost in the shadow of an endless grace

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