[se] neither emotions nor conflicts

Noah

Don't the best of them bleed it out?
While the rest of them peter out

Noah smiled softly at her agreement to his help, and then scooped more and more sand away with his hands while leaving her room to work with her trowel. Often, his eyes would flick towards the woman, but past her, looking to see if her dragon had made a reappearance. When she didn’t, Noah would then look to the gourd and then back to his digging hands.

”I got a few geckos and burned a few bundles of infected pineapples, but nothing too big yet today.” Though each and every decimation and murder of such void-touched creatures was obedience to Vi’s mandate, no matter their size or destructive capability. ”Vi said to destroy all of them. I learned that Flora had gotten infected from some kind of creature, but Rae healed her.” Noah said, almost idly, unaware that Melita had been on that expedition.

Truth or consequence, say it aloud
Use that evidence, race it around