"What a fortunate turn of events," Urania said, turning her gaze to the comet and raising a slender arm to point at it. "We must be beneath a strange star."
She meant it poetically, of course, and not that they were literally beneath a quark star made of strange matter, a thing which was hypothesized to occur in the core of neutron stars and might exist without regard to the BodmerβWitten assumption.
Obviously.
Urania looked back to Merlin and gave him a slow smile, leaning in just a little as well.