Among the unaffiliated, Noor stands out as an Afghan who is long coated, longer eyed, and full of inherited quiet. Noor paints corridor murals at the flying den when no one is watching. Pups passing the lower mall after rain season sometimes wave to Noor out of habit, even on days when nobody is actually there. What drives Noor is loyalty first, curiosity second, and the suspicion that those are the same thing.