She recanted the tale enough for him to follow about the white dragon hunt. "Dragons are elusive. They don't like to be found, and when they are, it would surely be a feat to get to the heart." He didn't want to tell her that if they had found the dragon, her Adam and Peter would not have been the only bodies left in the Fangs. It could be implied, however, from the way he looked at her. "But I am sorry you lost a friend." Some might have followed that up with: at least it wasn't lost, the sacrifice helped rebuild the temple, blag blah blah... Noah, however, didn't feel he was in such a place do to so. Temples and shrines hadn't meant much to him until just recently, and even then he had only been left empty handed and cursed.
