Firestone Hot Springs please sign on the dotted line

the air was tense and uncomfortable for longer than terance liked, but he tried to ignore it. he liked silence, appreciated it, but maybe not so much in this moment. the awkwardness hung around them for a few moments longer before maera asked him about his hobbies as a naturalist-- and terance's mind settled again.

"the stars... and the moon and the sky and all the stuff up there," he said, gesturing up with a tilt of his crown. his nose pointed upwards for a moment, twitching, before he looked back down to the girl. "i wanna be an astronomer, like, a real one, a helpful one," he added as a side note. he always felt like stargazing was a useless talent to most wolves, but he knew that there was use for it. like the moon and the tides, they had a connection. and everyone acted a little weirder when the moon was full. he would learn the most important parts of the sky, and how he could apply it to pack life. maybe, one day, he'd ask charon, since the man himself was an astronomer. but, of course, terance mentioned none of that to maera. the basics was all she probably cared to hear.