His fears were met with her own worries at the state of him. It wasn’t what she was expecting. There wasn’t blood covering him from head to toe. Only a few dried flecks across his skin and a smattering over his clothes. Nothing marring his perfect features. Nothing except for the cold painting his lips blue at the edges, causing his muscles to tremble and his form to hunch over even as he took long strides towards her, enveloping her in his stronghold of an embrace. Cordelia releases a shuddering breath, shivering despite her layers as the dampness of his own clothes seeps through into her bones, ”I ran away… Only took one shot.”
The shame is palpable along the bone. Acrid and suffocating as it rises in her throat, daring to make her sick all over again even as her one hood hand starts to rub circles against his chest, trying to warm him up. ”The Banshee took one swipe at me and I- I ran away, Noah. I just- I tucked tail and ran.” Sure, she kept her promise. She did what she told him she would, but she desecrated her vow as a hunter. As a protector of Halo and a watcher on the wall. She wasn’t worthy of him. Of this place or these people.
Cordelia might have kept her word to him, but she broke another vow entirely. There were plenty of checks and balances in the world. Rights and wrongs. Just because she held up one end didn’t mean she was a exempt from the other. No, Cordelia was guilty of the highest treason in Halo’s eyes and that wouldn’t change.
The shame is palpable along the bone. Acrid and suffocating as it rises in her throat, daring to make her sick all over again even as her one hood hand starts to rub circles against his chest, trying to warm him up. ”The Banshee took one swipe at me and I- I ran away, Noah. I just- I tucked tail and ran.” Sure, she kept her promise. She did what she told him she would, but she desecrated her vow as a hunter. As a protector of Halo and a watcher on the wall. She wasn’t worthy of him. Of this place or these people.
Cordelia might have kept her word to him, but she broke another vow entirely. There were plenty of checks and balances in the world. Rights and wrongs. Just because she held up one end didn’t mean she was a exempt from the other. No, Cordelia was guilty of the highest treason in Halo’s eyes and that wouldn’t change.
Cordelia
My hand was the one you reached for all throughout the Great War
