[unlike other people, noct doesn't seem to shy away from it. despite the fact that he is the sort to normally fluster a bit at stuff like that, if anything, right now? noct seems to actually relax a little more.

it's definitely a comfort, one he hadn't even considered he could need—given how it's usually not his first option.]

They are. And... I don't want to let them down. Not the ones who are still alive, and not... the ones we lost, either.