[Training] fade to indigo

Noah

the truth is what remains
the truth is what you save from the fire

Having been given the tasks he was by Safrin, Noah knew he could accomplish several of them in the barracks. There were soldiers always willing to train with him, especially the ones who knew they never had to go easy on the demigod. Today, though, the hunter took pause before approaching and asking someone to train with him. As he entered the training ring, the sparking and unfurling of incantations and spells and magic caught every bit of his attention. He made his way slowly back to the corner of the training grounds the mages occupied, and watched them. He watched longer, seeing Deimos among their ranks.

The hunter swallowed. He wasn't sure where he stood in the warden's eyes, even if his own frustrations had had time to freeze over like the rest of their world. Cordelia had helped him process through a lot of the emotion, and only she was able to get to the bottom of it -- Noah had felt like a chastised child, not like Deimos' friend. He hadn't felt understood, or empathized with, from someone that he would lay his life down for, and that hurt hung on his heart. In the moment it had manifested as anger, as frustration, but now it had frozen into the jagged pieces of icy hurt that it was.

Noah sighed, trying to push it all down, and stepped forward. Safrin had asked him to use his shield to protect someone stronger than him, and there were few in the world as strong as Deimos.

you fight for what you love, don't matter if it hurts
you find out what it's worth and you let the rest burn