After looking at every little part of the nocturnal, Sophie placed the object on the floor by her bag. She pulled out a book and opened it on the page she had seen that had stuff about nocturnals. She started reading it, with a hand on the nocturnal as if it could escape if she left it alone.

Oh! She would have to spot Polaris once again, it seemed! She smiled at the thought. That was the very first star she spotted with Tayla back in October and she still knew how to do it! Yay! For what she was reading, it seemed easy to tell time with the nocturnal once you got used to it, but Sophie was definitely not used to it yet and wasn't sure if she would be able to do that right this time.

Sophie reread the 'usage' part and started trying working. First, she had to turn the smaller disc so that the pointer would indicate the current date and the star she would spot besides Polaris, apparently. She was glad she knew how to spot Little Dipper as well.

Sophie made a mental note to remember to thank Tayla for teaching her how to find those stars before she stared at the nocturnal and turned the disc around to put it in its right position. There! It was now ready for her to look through and check the time! Hopefully…