Starlight, Starbright... [Video | Thursday night]

[professorwolf]

Good evening... Randolph Lyall here.

[For those of them who don't recognize him by now. His face is only on camera briefly, however, before he turns it up to the now-clear sky, panning slowly and steadily around to show as much of it as he can-- well, the parts he's noticed have changed. Wherever he is, it's far enough from Poseidon and any residual lights that the stars are very clear.]

I'm not really sure if anyone has noticed, but the sky has changed from what I remember. I spend most of my nights out under it, especially lately, so I take note of the stars quite a bit. That set there--

[He pauses the camera over one constellation in particular.]

--belongs several feet over to my left, and this one--

[He moves the camera again.]

--belongs several along the horizon at this time of night. Even worse, at least one formation I've actually taken note of seems to have vanished entirely, or at least is now missing enough pieces that I can no longer identify it.

[He doesn't memorize every star there is, you know. Just the patterns that help keep him on track when scent trails fail him, or that stand out when a nocturnal wolf is bored and watching the stars.]

I'm not at all sure what could do such a thing. Whether the planet system has moved and we didn't notice, whether something is blocking them out, or... well, I'm open to ideas, if anyone has any.

Comments

[tiptoeing]

Mm, not in a direct kind of way, unless the storms altered the atmosphere enough to alter our view of the night sky somehow. But maybe something caused the storms that also caused the star patterns to shift.

[professorwolf]

I had assumed they were simply part of the normal weather patterns. We had rain about this time last year, as well, if I recall. We get quite a bit of rain here, to be honest. I'll ask about and see how common storms like that really are.

[tiptoeing]

It might be a good thing to ask about...it might also be interesting to see if anyone else has noticed abnormal star patterns before, though I don't know if it's something anyone else pays much attention to here.