Noah's words earned a slow inclination of the Tidebreaker's head in acknowledgment of perhaps the most difficult price of a god's full favor. He had expected to outlive his parents, of course, but what it would mean to watch his sister age and die while he remained as he currently was...
Hadama closed his eyes and breathed slowly and deeply, accepting the possibility while it was still only a 'might-yet-be' and not yet a certainty. There would be pain, yes. But he had never yet given his heart to any other person in the way that Noah had, and when the Tidebreaker opened his eyes again it was to meet the Sentinel's gaze squarely. "Yes," he agreed, short and simple and quietly fervent. "I have no one person like that. And if I pledge myself to Safrin, I do not think I ever will."
Hadama closed his eyes and breathed slowly and deeply, accepting the possibility while it was still only a 'might-yet-be' and not yet a certainty. There would be pain, yes. But he had never yet given his heart to any other person in the way that Noah had, and when the Tidebreaker opened his eyes again it was to meet the Sentinel's gaze squarely. "Yes," he agreed, short and simple and quietly fervent. "I have no one person like that. And if I pledge myself to Safrin, I do not think I ever will."
