"I am not sure it has to be so utilitarian." He started, his shoulders dropping a little as he spoke. He did not know a lot about the Old Gods, just enough to skate by in life, but his parents had always worked to teach him and Ezekiel to stay as safe as they could possibly manage. "The Eirachi...we're always taught to be careful at Deepfrost. She is the spirit of Deepfrost. These outlanders, they didn't know her power. I believe she would have come for this city either way. But, because of the ignorance, so many lives were lost." Soldiers lost in the defense of their Citadel was predictable--they signed up for that possibility. "Children are a hope for a future. In Halo, we protect children. Even the hardest old man who might yell at kids for messing around and breaking something would lay down his life in this tundra for theirs." Noah was confident in this statement, and he finally turned away from the fire to look at Delphine, icy eyes just barely filling with tears at the bottom.
"Would you really have killed your children on purpose to make a deal with a spirit?"
