Close-ish was good enough for Alice, so after taking a look at his calculations, she headed for the owlery. "The place where they send them from should have a window, right?" Or open space.. something. She gave the sextant a couple of good swings on their way to the post place, brandishing it like the execution equipment it was and clinging tightly to her other materials with her free hand. These things, they were awesome.

Would Flamsteed maybe let her keep one? For celestial purposes and stuff, no whacking. Obviously.

There was still no way other than the pointer stars that she could recall for Polaris finding, so she looked for them in the bowl of the Big Dipper again, soon arriving in the vicinity of the North Star a second time. "There." Up there. In the sky. She saw it.