Aim for the moon, land among the stars
07-30-2021, 05:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-30-2021, 05:01 PM by Hauyne. Edited 2 times in total.)
The moon had long since started it's nightly ascent towards the apex of the sky, it was nearly there, the highest point it would reach with many hours still remaining before it would fully disappear, the cool of autumn making the nights draw longer again, when the young Destruction boy would leave the den. His family was, as far as he could tell, still asleep. He had promised under his breath that he wouldn't go too far outside the den but he had gotten a curious bug, it had been hard to confirm as his parents often ushered them into the den shortly after proper nightfall but Haüyne had a hunch that the stars seemed to move across the sky, not a lot but when he'd been able to draw patterns with some stars during the late hours of twilight when they would seem to shift slightly, though not enough to notice day to day... So he was hoping to get a better view of the night sky now that the sun had fully descended and the stars were more visible. Or that had been the plan. But as he'd noticed how much the dark branches of the trees blocked out the sky he'd wandered further and further from the den, though he never left the pines he was soon no longer within easy view of the den. Eventually, he discovered a little clearing, one of the pines felled in the snow, its split stump long since worn smooth by time and animals scampering across it, and almost upon instinct he jumped up onto its smooth surface, his head tipped back as if being slightly further off the ground would make his view of the stars clearer. The young man was fully lost in his wondering, eyes flicking across the sky as he tried to find the little set of stars he'd drawn into a little snake-like design, the body mostly a flat line that curved upwards into a little curve for the head. His head swiveled a few times almost looking like an owl as he searched. Finally, finally he spotted it, further west than he last remembered seeing them the last time he'd made note of where they were. Haüyne cocked his head to the side, eyes narrowing as he tried to ponder out why this could even be the case? Did the sky move? It didn't seem totally impossible, after all the moon and the sun moved along the sky too... But why would the sky itself move? It didn't seem to shift in daytime outside of being able to trace the path of the sun... As far as he could work out while clouds might suggest the movement of the sky that it seemed they were affected more by the wind than anything else... maybe the sky was pushed by the wind too? Well this deserved a little more investigation. Haüyne swiveled his head until his gaze landed on the moon. Huh... If the sun, moon and stars were fixed in position in the sky why was it that the sun and moon could be seen visibly moving at a much faster pace... Come to think of it the sun's movement was also significantly faster than that of the stars which seemed to only move a tiny bit each night rather than moving from one horizon to another in the span of the day. So if they were stuck to the sky like the stars seemed to be, how was it they moved so much quicker, traveling the full length of the sky in a single day when it seemed like the stars only visibly moved over the course of about a week or so? Well, that was confusing... As far as Haüyne was concerned this just meant further investigation, and what better way to try and do that than hunker down for a proper stargazing session. He rolled onto his back, the smooth bark hard against his spine but with paws tucked to his chest and abdomen it was almost cozy, his forepaws lifting occasionally as he set about making new designs in the stars with a foreclaw before they'd fall floppily back to his chest. But the more patterns he could build and recognize the more he could check throughout the week and build a hypothesis. Admittedly this position wasn't exactly conducive to keeping a young growing boy awake well past his bedtime, his lids felt heavy and from time to time even felt them slipping closed before he'd jostle himself awake. If he wasn't careful he would suddenly be woken to daylight out of the den, laying down on a stump... That would probably only end with a bunch of questions from his parents and maybe even being reprimanded. And yet his brain was starting to slow... his eyes starting to close once more and the world starting going dark... WC: 817 |
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