It was snowing stars... Icy flakes with their sharp extensions of bright solid rays, forming a sea of frozen starlight outside, on the ground.
As Eileen climbed the Astronomy tower, she'd found no stray adventurers there. Only the winter's chill seeping into the bones of the tower, with every fallen snowflake.
Only Sami. Barefoot as usual, despite the staircase stones being cold as ice.
He'd always roamed where he wanted, even at the darkest hour, while stars of a different kind than what was seen by the rest of the world lit his way.
As she caught up to him, on the winding staircase, Eileen brought herself down from her heel-assisted height on one knee, and put her palm flat against the upper step he stood on. A second of contact and a heating spell, strong enough to force the solid rock under his feet into shudder as it resisted letting all of its deeply-running, hidden cracks out toward the surface.