Sea Lion Shores Saw you there and I thought

"Yup!" said Saena brightly, angling her head so she could peer at the sky. "I'm still learning to read them, but they form figures that tell stories. If you learn the stories, you can know about history." The simorgh in her dreams had yet to tell her anything about the stars, though. Whatever divine knowledge was hidden in them was not for her ears yet. She had to earn it, only then would the spiritual blessing of her birth—Atka's blessing, not that she knew any of that—reveal the truths to her.

"Right now, all I can do is predict the weather and that sorta thing." She smiled sheepishly, in case she'd disappointed the boy. "But yeah, I dreamt about the ocean before I ever saw it. It's pretty weird but I dream like that a lot. Call it a Naturalist's instincts."

Swishing her tail, Saena glanced at the seals once more. The large male had practically swallowed the female with his girth in some violent dance, and she looked away quickly. "Do you have cool dreams like that sometimes? Where you learn stuff you don't learn anywhere else?"