Noah did not want to move from where they were now. He never wanted to forget how her body felt pressed against his. "I should go back to Stormbreak tonight." He said, a frown pulling at his lips. He did not want to leave her. Instead, he pulled her closer as her hands wandered beneath the linen of his shirt. She would feel goosebumps beneath her fingertips as they trailed over his skin, and his breath hitched in his throat as she nuzzled into him.
His own hand roamed up her back and his fingers traced patterns on her shoulder. He sighed, closing his eyes for a moment as he recalled Vi's exact words. "Vi said I would have you shine...I would have your light eliminate the shadows where the Ascended crawl. I would have you take it back, and I would have you take no prisoners. I believe that taking back Halo lives within those parameters. It is clear that Vi does not want the Voice to have any more reach than she does, and whatever we can do to combat that he wants that to happen." The words were etched into Noah's mind, easy to recall because he heard them often.
"I always thought I would live a simpler life." He smiled some, soft, as he brushed her hair back from her ear and placed a gentle kiss on the lobe. "I thought I would have a wife to protect and provide for, and a family as big as she would allow." Noah knew his parents had always wanted many children, but there was something preventing them from having more than the three they did, and only two had lived. Noah grew up with only his brother, and their ages had been so far apart that when his parents died he had become Ezekiel's dad more than his brother, and it drove a wedge between them. Noah's ideas to stay in Halo and dedicate his life to it fueled Zeke's desire to get out and away, to explore and feel the world beneath his feet.
If only his estranged brother could see him now.
Noah Olson When the night is cold and you feel like no-one knows what it's like to be the only one buried in this hole You can make it to the sunrise |
