I find myself oddly fond of Noah, and relate to him on... probably more levels than I should, despite being rather older than him.

That being said, he really should try to gain at least enough physical fitness to survive the stupid situations he keeps getting into- I think it was just combat training that he was terrifyingly inept at, not more generalized fitness, at least if I'm remembering correctly.

As a thought, I wonder if Nail's abilities are similar to Burk's at all? Granted, the only reason to think that is because they both fall under the 'nobody has any freaking clue what they are or how they can do what they do', but it'd be interesting if Burk wasn't as unique as he seemed at first.