In the years that followed, Noe ventured the planes of heaven and Earth searching for Daniel. Around him, wherever he stepped, the waste began to lift.
Even as war raged and fell, even as his friends reincarnated from life to life, Daniel did not return.
Noe returned to Sympathy Boarding School, where he first met Daniel, and built it up from the ruins to create an oasis for Ephrenes and children of the Underworld alike.
Centuries turned and a new world was created. The city states fell, and the air cleared.
"That's why you have to invert the fractions," Noe taught logarithms to his new buzzing set of sophomores. Suddenly, Veren erupted in him.
At a time like this, Noe recalls his first class with Daniel.
A ray of sun hits him at just the right spot to shine his beauty all over Noe's intrigue. Noe extends his hand and tries to catch Mr. Henderson's playful grin from afar. It slips between his fingertips.
