After remaining silent for a while, Sunny spoke in a contemplative tone:
"I am guessing that the starlight stolen by Nightwalker was not infinite, though."
Naeve nodded.
"Indeed. The light contained within the Star Lantern was merely a wisp, so it was exhausted eventually — Aether was the last person to have benefited from it directly."
He paused for a moment, and then added in a complicated tone:
"Not every child born in the House of Night inherits the lineage, either. And with how often Awakened die, our bloodline has always been at risk of vanishing… there are fewer of us now than ever before, and no one has been able to manifest the lineage as strongly as Nightwalker himself, yet. So… that was one of the reasons why he wanted to return to the Eternal City."
He looked around the spacious cabin they had gathered in, then gestured to its walls.
