Completed Seeing Stars

[Tsaba]

44th Summer, 513AV Tsaba made her way up the stairs of the astronomy tower, still not entirely sure what she was doing there. But she was in Zeltiva to learn. And learn, she would. The tower was quite beautiful, an elegant construction of glass and stone. Nothing overwhelmingly impressive to somebody who had spent so much time in the Sahovan library and laboratories, but a nice building. Tsaba could see the West wing roof below, and the scholar's forum. A few students moved about there, difficult to see in the near-darkness of the setting sun, looking very tiny. But the tower wasn't designed to look down. It was designed to look up. And Tsaba did so. "You won't see much while the sun's still out," an amused voice said behind her. "You'll need to wait for it to finish setting." Tsaba turned and met the friendly eyes of a tall, thin young man. He walked through the tower like it was his home, heading for a mounted telescope and adjusting it with professional hands. "Would you be Mr Tunsten?" she asked politely. "Cyril," he corrected. "Yes. And you must be new to the tower." "Tsaba," Tsaba said. "Welcome to the Astronomy tower, Tsaba." "Thank you." Not wishing to disturb Cyril while he was working, Tsaba sat cross-legged on the floor, and waited for the stars.

[Tsaba]

When it was dark enough, Cyril showed Tsaba how to operate a telescope, and quickly began pointing out his favourite stars and constellations, occasionally adding some history on their discovery. Tsaba half-listened, and wondered what her chances of being able to interview Cyril on his own life were. Probably pretty good. He seemed friendly enough. Tsaba had never really thought much about stars. They were just there, part of the backdrop, like the horizon. She was vaguely aware that they were useful for navigation, but she hadn't really wondered about why anybody would build a tower just to view them. Or write books on them. Or give them names. And yet people had. There were people who had turned away from actual matters that affected real lives, and looked up at a sky full of distant lights, and said, 'That. That's the interesting part of the world.' And listening to the enthusiasm in the young astronomy teacher's voice, Tsaba could almost understand why.

[Abstract]

Grade Awarded!

Tsaba

Skills

N/A

Lores

~ Location: The Astronomy Tower
~ Cyril: Passionate Astronomy Teacher

Other

N/A

Notes

Not much to give here at all. I'm almost disappointed Tsa, you had a lot of potential to get some great Observation XP and Astronomy. However, I didn't give you that, nor ''uses of a telescope', since you didn't add any detail or description. Please, as I've mentioned before: detail gets you the XP!