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Cassirin 
Since all the good answers were gone, Mo turned his head to watch the spot the professor was pointing at and tried very hard not to be a sulker. He had answered the professor's question - mentioned using stars just like his classmates. Just because he also knew about survival didn't mean it was a bad answer. It was a MORE answer, which was the only type of answer Mo knew how to give really.
"What do they do in the Southern Hemisphere?"
Oh oh West knew that! He actually beamed at Mo (sort of forgetting himself for a moment, on account of astronomy was exciting).
"They look for the Southern Cross! It moves around the sky but if you follow the bottom bit of the cross with your eye it lines up with the South Celestial Pole, and then you know what way south is! Its sort of like a straight line from the bottom of the cross like.... around four times the length of the Southern Cross, and then there's these other two stars called Pointers and you can use them to sort of tell if you're doing it right too, on account of they all rotate around the axis and always point at it." West had never seen it for real, just in books, but it was a question that had interested him TOO, so he waved his hand around eagerly as he explained it to.... Mo. Oh. Mo. He stopped and sort of smiled tentatively. Err.
Yeah.