Noah had been staring at the ceiling for twenty minutes.
Not because he couldn't sleep. He had slept fine, better than he had in months actually, the Vanguard station's quarters doing what good quarters did which was provide a bed and silence and leave the rest to the person using them. He was awake because his system had been sitting in his peripheral vision since he opened his eyes and he had been putting off looking at it the way you put off opening something when you already knew it was going to be a lot.
He opened it.
[PENDING NOTIFICATIONS: 14]
'Fourteen,' he thought. 'Of course.'
He started from the top.
[QUEST COMPLETE: Hierarchy exists for a reason]
[Reward delivered: Biological Integration Stage 2]
[Draconic Halfling Stage 2: Active]
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