who we are and all that we're trying to be
Tension pulled, he might’ve been all the more encouraged to relax in his current state too, with Ronin’s appearance, with Safrin’s warmth, but all the trepidation seemed to still be stored in his spine, in the back of his mind. For a few moments thereafter he smiled in return, but the solemness in the goddess’ voice lent all the age-old, primordial apprehension, and he half-wondered what they were about to be plunged into next.
He hadn’t taken the peace for granted – they’d built wondrous things from it. To have even some sentiments of it clattering down around him made his jaw clench instinctually, before his gaze was fully on Safrin, and not the surrounding stars. “Do you know what we should be preparing for?” Another war against something they hadn’t marked as a threat? Something foreboding, ominous, and treacherous?
It takes dying to know
How to live as ghosts
