With her head pressed gently on his back, and a soft tone, she said. "Noah, listen to me carefully. You didn't create the hatred between these kingdoms. You didn't teach them to see each other as enemies worthy of destruction. That conflict has existed for decades, long before you ever arrived here."
As someone who had witnessed both the best and worst of people throughout her long life, Lola understood what Noah was feeling at this exact moment, and she didn't want to leave him experience it alone, like she had then.
"What you're seeing out there...that's not your responsibility. It's theirs. They chose to use your items for war instead of growth, for destruction instead of prosperity. That choice belongs to them, not to you."
Noah remained silent, but she could feel some of the tension in his posture beginning to ease as her words reached the part of him that needed to hear them.
