Noah knew the smarter and more logical thing to do was to simply bend his head down and not say or do a single thing.
THE Creature had already set everything up with a fabricated history, had carved an entire alternative sequence of events into the readable weavings of what had occurred, had positioned Noah and Emotive and Anaximander as incidental survivors who had only escaped THE Relictus's assault because the greater targets had consumed THE Relictus's attention.
