[PQ] we'll be counting stars

Ronin could watch Safrin all day, the hunter smiling softly as she accepted the celestials from Amalia, as she solidified the starlight in the lantern that Jyoti had filled. Something inside him calmed and soothed, as if he had needed this as much as Safrin; to know that the goddess who had breathed life back into him was well enough to see them, to speak with them. And the infant stars seemed to revive her somewhat, Ronin's smile growing as she came to fold him in her arms. Her touch was like the purest of fire, and he breathed easier for it without knowing why. Only... no. He did know why. She had just told him. "What?" he said softly, glancing up at her with uncertainty and reaching out to hold her steady. "No... Not like..." Not like the Undine, who had been so close to death not so long ago. And it had taken the power of a being like Arduinna to cleanse her... what, then, would be needed for something like Safrin? "We'll stop it," he vowed, thinking not of himself at all. "We'll stop the blight." ronin begin again, as the storm