[SE] the portals of the night

Noah

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

Noah nodded, a deep sound of agreement rumbling from his chest up his throat. "Halo teaches fast." he said. "Usually the hard way." He turned his glacier eyes sidelong towards Amhran, wondering how the Raeling would take such a thought. He knew Deimos had kept the demigod under the safety of his wings. While his own father was protective in his own way, there was a stark difference to how Amhran was raised versus how Noah had been.

At Amhran’s thanks, he waved a gloved hand it off. "Happy to help. This was better than what I had in mind, anyway." Amhran's thorough knowledge of what grew in the greenhouse kept him from searching for moon and star touched things on the white and endless tundra. "Do you still want to press some of the petals?"

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