I'll be careful. He said as he dipped a wing and started his descent, knowing Deimos well enough to know how his mind would spiral with many different outcomes. Precision, here, mattered. He watched the Sword turn back toward the sea, refusing to let the problem sit unanswered. Then, ghe angled his body lower, wings spreading wider as he approached the smoke from the windward side. The heat reached him in pulses, an unnatural warmth licking against his feathers, stirring the embers that lived beneath his breastbone. He resisted the instinct to answer fire with fire, the griffin part of him bashing against the man.
Instead, he beat his wings hard and deliberately, powerful strokes meant to shove air downward and outward, driving the sea inland. The wind answered him, surging and curling, waves below responding in small but noticeable swells. Smoke shifted, dragged sideways, thinning in places only to thicken elsewhere. The flames guttered briefly, then crept outward along a new seam, searching for purchase like something alive and clever. Noah pulled up sharply, banking away before the heat could climb higher.
It’s doing something, he sent, But it’s not enough.
Instead, he beat his wings hard and deliberately, powerful strokes meant to shove air downward and outward, driving the sea inland. The wind answered him, surging and curling, waves below responding in small but noticeable swells. Smoke shifted, dragged sideways, thinning in places only to thicken elsewhere. The flames guttered briefly, then crept outward along a new seam, searching for purchase like something alive and clever. Noah pulled up sharply, banking away before the heat could climb higher.
It’s doing something, he sent, But it’s not enough.
noah
you touched my heavy heart and made it light
