Silverlight Terrace I want to touch the other side

set for late evening
@Merrit for reference, but he's def welcome to join too <3

He had left Merrit sleeping, at least he was fairly certain he was sleeping anyway. He hadn't wandered too far, just to the meadow in the foothills, not very far from where they camped for the night. The silvery meadow had drawn him in. The snow had melted from the area, but the fields still lacked the lush green grass that was promised by the dead, yellow stuff that crunched below his paws as he walked. 

He eventually found a tree to sit near, leaning against the trunk as he slid to the ground to rest. His gaze slowly drifted up to the sky and took in the stars. He had avoided the activity of stargazing as much as possible—it reminded him too much of what he had lost. But he missed the stars more than he thought he would, and it had started to feel disrespectful to his mother's memory to ignore this strange link between them. 

So he studied the bright lights, wishing he knew more about them than he did.