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[Normally one who sleeps away the winter months, Xzana has once again opted to move into human housing so that she can be awake during it. So long as she keeps warm enough she shouldn't fall asleep and as long as she has the thing called a bathtub she can suit her needs of being submerged for long periods of time.

However, a bathtub is much more cramped than the lake she is use to during warmer weather and she simply must get out once in awhile. Today she has decided to chance spending a little time outside. She's a bit hesitant at first, seeing the white drops falling from the sky, but after a little longer she starts to have some fun.

She prances about, kicking up snow in her bare, clawed feet. Wearing nothing but a flora dress she found randomly at the clothing shop she's a bit odd to see around. She'll spend time skating through the rivers that run through the village as she makes her way to the grocery store. She'll eat her fill of some of the raw meat there before carrying an arm full of it back to the ground building. At least being alone on the top floor means it shouldn't smell too bad when that meat slowly starts to rot.

Feeling full and happy she opens her journal to speak into it. Still full of energy, but not wanting to spend more time outside and chance freezing into place. The one winter she had spent awake in her homeland her friend Casimir would read from his books.]

Humans. Have you any stories to share? I do not mind if they are long ones. Perhaps ones of battle and victories? [Those were always exciting.]

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No, no it has doors and windows, but they can be sealed and unsealed so we can control the temperature.

[Temperature. That word again. Before she had been focused on the fact there were no openings. She's quite a moment. What could be controlled if there were no doors? Could he mean the wind? Was there a magic user on the ship? Maybe that's how they made it fly?]

Temperature... so you control the wind?

Hmm, no, that's not what temperature is. Temperature is how hot or cold something is, so we can control how hot and how cold the surrounding air is in our ship.

Weather. You have one that can control the weather. [Much easier to understand! She knew magic had to be involved somehow!] Have you run into the stars?

Haha, nope. See, they're actually all very far apart, and they're really big, so we see them long before we ever run into them.

Some do not look so very far apart. There are so many it would seem hard to miss them all.

It's because you see them from far, far away. You know how if you look down a row of houses, the ones at the end seem closer together than the ones in front and near you? It's the same thing.

[She's quiet for a moment. Thinking it over and recalling the images to mind. Then her eyes light up for a brief moment as she realizes that he was very right.] You are correct. They do appear to be close together although they are far.

So it's just like that! Except, these stars are so far apart that even so far away, they still look like they have quite a bit of space between them.

Hm. I do not think I shall ever be able to picture this story as it happened. I did not realize there was so much open area in the sky. I have never been able to fly so high in the sky the stars do not look close to each other.

[Not that she isn't trying. Her gruff voice sounding as dreamy as it could possibly go. Is there really that much room above her head?]

Then do you know why the stars are trapped in the sky and are only able to fall from the sky while the sun has returned each rise?

Well, the sky isn't really... the sky. I mean, it is the sky, but space is just that - space. Empty space. The stars are dense balls of gas held together through gravity and pressure. And the sun isn't actually moving - it's the earth that is. The earth, like a star, is a dense ball of mass held together through pressure and gravity, and it rotates around the sun and also turns in a circle itself. So when the sun goes down, it's really just the earth rotating enough so that that side of the earth is not facing the sun.

_{[ Was that 101 enough? He wasn't sure... ]}

[Not 101 enough for a creature like her by a long shot. You lost her at the sky isn't the sky.]

I do not think I will ever be able to understand the world as you humans do. Where the sky is only called the sky.

I guess I'll skip the whole levels of the atmosphere stuff then.

Atmosphere? What is that? [Also could be translated into: Skipping that would probably be most wise.]

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