Jade Fern Grove Just ignore him, that's what I do.

He thought this was gonna all be about stars, so he was caught a little off-guard, but was able to not look too much of a fool for the few seconds it took him to reply, Yeah, uh. I was born... not too far from here I guess, really. In a different forest. But my family lives kinda north of here now. In like.. a valley thing. Was that a good enough description of the bypass? Probably. It wasn't a pure forest at least. But why did she ask? Are you lost or something? That did sound a little childlike but he couldn't think of a better reason or really much of a way to save his ability to look cool. Spook being cool was pretty much an impossibility anyway.

He looped back to the earlier topic, Why were you looking at the stars? Look, the youth couldn't help himself, it was like a magnet. Going past it would be less painful but he just couldn't let it go. Not that easily at least. He still hadn't worked through his thoughts about his father entirely, so that was likely why. It wasn't quite a big red button that was tempting him to push it, but it was pretty close.