[Mini Event] [SE] a star on the water

noah

Free from all old stories Ive been told, I walk through the valley of my own shadow

Noah worked closely with Chulane, herding in the sick and doing all he could to help the people. No matter what he did, however, he still felt almost useless. He knew nothing -- all he could do, ultimately, was hunt. Where did that help him? He was supposed to be a member of this government, ready to serve the people, and yet here he was--the only one among them who spent his days in Snowcloak and on the Tundra, only doing what he had always done. Was that good? He was an Olson -- he was meant to be good. He was coming up short over and over--totally consumed by keeping people fed, and keeping his own home warm for the woman inside. What had he done, truly, that was above and beyond?

Nothing.

He stood silently, near Chulane and Morgan, and listened to the people. They had all been to this new discovered land of fire, and here he stayed in the snow. The hunter's jaw tightened as his own anger--focused on himself--bubbled and churned within him. Was he too afraid to die? Was that it? Others would answer no, with his continuous ventures out into the tundra. But...the tundra was no longer the most danger that the people of Halo knew. Now that they were open to the rest of the world, and that world continued to grow larger and larger, the danger followed closely on its heels. And Noah? He stayed in his comfortable tundra, with the ursurs and the wolves. And everyone else? They went out and risked their lives for the betterment of the world.

Noah sighed, small and unnoticeable, waiting and watching and listening.