[se] neither emotions nor conflicts

Noah

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

"Without hesitation." Noah said, nodding once, firmly and with a set jaw. "Vi was very clear when he spoke to me about killing them." One of the clearest things the god had every given him, actually. His tendency to speak in the vaguest of terms far above Noah and another other mortal sometimes left the demigod reeling -- but not this command. "The gods--" Vi, and Safrin, at least to Noah's knowledge "--are worried about this." Noah said, jutting his chin towards the distant moon-turned-island.

He let out a sigh and pushed the moist sand back into the hole, and pushed down to pack the sapling's roots, before scooping the dry sand more on top of the moist.

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