The sun's coming up
"Some sort of madness." Noah said, inspecting some of the rubies in his hand. "I thought it was a real molten tiger at first when I got attacked, but I knocked it out and it was a boy." Maeve's boy. Noah's laugh didn't etch a smile on his face, instead it turned into a frown as he recalled the meeting. "I healed him and he told me that if I turned my back on him he would lose it. It was almost like he couldn't control himself." and Noah knew it was only out of fear that Edmund hadn't attacked him again, and had run off when he commanded him to.
"It's ok, Lena." He reassured her as they harvested more of the reddened crystals. "I'll be on my way soon. It was better to see you than it was to see any of the ancients." Even if it had been originally what he had come for. "Is it ok if I have some of these, too?"
But the steel around your heart is starting to rust
