Heron Lake Plateau under stars

He sort of understood the kid, the fact that he'd been looking upwards and only caught Owen's flailing out of the corner of his eye hadn't helped either.  He mostly managed because between 'watching' and 'yes' they were pretty obvious signs to him, so he got the gist of it.

Again he spoke quietly to his son, Well, I don't know, but I think they pretty much stay up there.  The stars are really far away -- even if you climb the tallest mountain around, you still won't be close to them.  He didn't want to dominate what conversation might happen.  If Owen was still awake by the time things broke up for the night, maybe they could chat on the way back to the den before the pup hopefully went to sleep this time.

This time, though, he was actually able to catch sight of one of the shooting stars.  They were kind of pretty, he supposed.  If this was going to keep happening longer than a night or so, he'd have to make sure Raven got a chance to hang out and see the stars too.