Frozen Stars

Natha crouched down low, her belly fur just tickling the surface of the ice as she thought about Lyulf's words. So there were little things caught in little spaces in this ice? Maybe they were like little plants and got their energy from the sun. In such a case they would not need to move and perhaps they were hardy enough the ice did not bother them, like lichen. "I wondered that myself. I bet there are all kinds of interesting creatures frozen permanently in this lake."

The wolf seemed a bit uncertain as to if he would head south but in the end he seemed fine with joining her. "I'd be happy to have you! And you do not need to follow me all the way. I only intend to go as far south as Atlantis Island or perhaps Waterfall Peak. I haven't quite decided yet. Ideally, I want to explore every territory in the north and then I will pick my favorite to live in." At least until Shorty and the Gang arrived. Which they likely would before she was done but still, it gave her something to do.

Her gaze turned once more to the stars as Lyulf mentioned the Souther Cross. Her gaze scanned the horizon until she spied the blueish star that seemed to be part of a group of stars that form the cross. "Excellent! That's what we'll use then. I'm still learning the constellations. It doesn't help that the some times seem to change based on the season and of course what we see here is different from what we see in Auster. Do you have many of these formations back where you are from?" She assumed the Southern Cross was one familiar to him as she had never heard of it before.