Why are there stars?

Astrea could see that she was an elementas? She wondered how that worked but it wasn't one of the questions she was prioritizing right now. As tempted as she was to blurt every single thing that came to mind... there where certain she was more interested in learning about and she didn't want them lost in her excitement. Here was someone before her who was willing to open up the entire world to her, to answer all of her questions. She had time for the oil when so few wolves seemed to. Despite her father's best intentions to keep her close to home she knew he was too busy to really enforce it. That also meant, he was too busy to entertain her or to take her to the places she wanted to go.

"I can go outside the border with you? Can we go now?" Surely astrea couldn't be surprised with the question that followed. The pup paid no mind at all to the caution astrea also tried to install upon her. But she would be with her auntie anyway, so they should be safe right?
She was so distracted with the idea of leaving the borders she almost didn't even ask the other few questions she had left. "OK. So. That day we where in our den and the water gobbled up the beach, why did it do that auntie? Is daddy afraid it will gobble me too? Because he won't let me anywhere near the water, I think the sea frightens him" it was sort of a question anyway. Her eyes lit up then and she grinned "but that's not the secret. I met a friend on the border and he rescued me from the mud. He's a prince did you know? And he Pointed out that I'm like a queen. It's just, I haven't told daddy because he worries so much I don't know what he would think about me having a friend that dosent live in the pack" the young girl would explain