[ Based on the time they looked at a globe together, he should be aware that Julie's world seemed to simply contain way more land than his, and Julie herself from a country so vast that she had never seen the ocean before Abraxas. She assumed that it would be harder to see stars even in the Continent's larger cities than atop a mountain or deep in the forest, but then again, maybe she's wrong.
She leans against his shoulder slightly, to twist herself into a better position to look directly up. With a thought, what's left of the fireworks clears from view, though she's isolating this to within the bubble. The sky this reveals is dark, black mottled with purple and the bright, fluid ribbon of the Milky Way. ]
Us too. If you're somewhere dark and clear enough, you can still do it. The north star is the brightest star in the sky. You just need to know which constellations you need to follow. [ Julie herself really only knows how to find the north star, but she'd known plenty of people who could navigate based on the sky. Boy Scout, 4H shit. ] In my time, we have satellites in space, these big computers, basically. They orbit the earth and can communicate with our computers on the ground, to tell us exactly where we are and where to go.
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She leans against his shoulder slightly, to twist herself into a better position to look directly up. With a thought, what's left of the fireworks clears from view, though she's isolating this to within the bubble. The sky this reveals is dark, black mottled with purple and the bright, fluid ribbon of the Milky Way. ]
Us too. If you're somewhere dark and clear enough, you can still do it. The north star is the brightest star in the sky. You just need to know which constellations you need to follow. [ Julie herself really only knows how to find the north star, but she'd known plenty of people who could navigate based on the sky. Boy Scout, 4H shit. ] In my time, we have satellites in space, these big computers, basically. They orbit the earth and can communicate with our computers on the ground, to tell us exactly where we are and where to go.