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”Mm? Oh no, it’s fine. You don’t have to… His protests are perfunctory of course, because Aurelia is already getting up and readying her first aid kit. So Ronin surrenders his hand, staring instead at the bloodied glass on the table and frowning; partially at himself but also at the situation that has arisen which has caused his temper to flare so quickly, without warning or care for what is around it. ”I’ll get you another glass,” he says with a listless smile. ”Wouldn't want any of your guests to go without a drink, huh.” Lifting his gaze to her face at last, the Star smiles a bit and shrugs his shoulders. ”I was thinking of something more immediate. Like how Accepted can channel, except you’d get me instead. I could ask Safrin if there was anything she could do.” Speaking of Safrin, Aurelia’s eyes meet his own, and she asks a question that both is and isn’t something that people often want to know about his goddess. ”Yes and no,” he says slowly. ”What I think is wrong and what she thinks is wrong are two different matters. What she has done is taken all of my abilities away for refusing her. Take that however you will.” taliesin a long and lonesome road