[Training] Hope as far as one can see

"I have taken service with her," he said simply. The phrase was far too small to encompass all that she had given him or all that he had given her in return, but Hadama took comfort in understatement. "And it needs doing." A large task, yes, and a dangerous one, but that was the whole reason for demigods. To handle those tasks that fell between gods and mortals, and to give their best in the doing.

Though in this instance the task was indeed daunting, and their only lead now legitimately led a region and called herself 'The Reaper.'

"It would," he confirmed, and there was an unusually grim set to his jaw as he gave a single sharp nod. "So it will take some planning. Sunjata was going to test the Refuge on her, but I have not heard if he was able to do so." It had been some time ago, now, and in the flurry of preparing their regional quest, the minutiae of leading, his own personal search for one of Vi's Roses with Noah, and the pursuit of his answer to Safrin's offer he had lost track of just how much time had past since he'd heard from the Flood.

Hmm. Concerning.

Nor was he impulsive enough to go knocking on doors that might hide tide jaguars behind them. Not when those jaguars might be Voidsea Panthers in disguise.

"If you learn anything, will you let me know?"