Aric nodded and quickly decided what he wanted to do. Perhaps his curiousity was becoming too strong; perhaps what he was planning was not nice, or right. But he needed to do it. For his sake and Naka's. He walked outside the tower. It was still night, and the moon was at it's peak in the cloudless sky. The wind was slightly cold, but Aric had grown climatised to it, but he wondered about how Naka would react to the cold. She was that outlandish to him that he wouldn't be surprised if she didn't feel it. The moon was full and large in the sky. It's white rays lanced through the night sky and landed on the snow, where it reflected all around them. A white wonderland, and it was at the peak of its beauty in the night. The sky was alight with thousands of stars that could not be seen in the cities, and Aric knew the name of each one.

"We're a self sufficient community here," Aric said to Naka, walking behind him, gesturing towards the farm and orchards of hardy, snow proof trees. "That's why we aren't heard off all too much outside the Silver Mountains. We ask no other people for supplies and we don't get too many travellers. Still, the community of astronomers and astrologers, and anyone with an interest in the night has always found solace here. We have never turned away a broken soul lost in the snow, not in my reign here anyway, or my father's." He grimaced slightly, but continued talking. "We're a fairly small group at the moment, but astronomers come and go often and they say that night watching is becoming more popular in the lands nearby . . . I've never been away from the Silver Mountains, so I wouldn't know, but I hope it is." He suddenly turned around to Naka. "Do stop me if I start boring you."

He pointed up at the sky. "You see there, the stars where I'm pointing? Can you see the shape of the scorpion, the Scorpio, and there, the ram, that is Aries."

Then Aric stopped, and with the reflected light of the white moon shining at him from all angles he turned around to look at Naka. They had walked back to the place where he had found her. He had led her here, hoping she would remember.