Dis walked into the Observation Room and read the board before sitting down. She wanted to make sure she read all of the instructions and understood everything she needed to do before setting to work. She made shorthand notes of the instructions on a piece of parchment and looked around the room for an empty telescope.
There weren't that many students in the room so finding an unoccupied instrument was quite easy. She walked over to one and pulled out the stool situtated underneath the eyepiece and sat upon it, depositing her bag next to her. The took out a larger piece of parchment and a quill and set to work
She looked up at the moon with her bare eyes and drew a simple sketch of it, making sure to fill in the proper shadows where they were to lie on a scale model if she had one in front of her. She drew a few surrounding stars to compliment her picture and carried on.
Next she took a look at the moon through the telescope. What she had seen without it paled in comparison to what she was looking at in the zoomed image. She readied her quill again and began to sketch a more precise drawing of the moon and all of it's intricacies. SHe would occasionally flip through her book to find and label all of the specific areas of the moon, the spaces around it and it's projected path.
She raised her head from the eye of the telescope and looked at the moon a final time, trying to trick her eye into seeing images in the shadows it cast upon itself. There was the obvious Man in the Moon but was there anything else? Was she able to see something if she looked a certain way and squinted her eyes just so? Dis jotted down a few notes, making a couple of rough sketches to back herself up.
She blinked her eyes thoroughly as they were strained from looking through the eye piece for so long. She rolled up her parchment, tucked her quill into her back and stood up. SHe stretched slightly. She back was a little sore from being in a hunched position for such an extended period of time but the pain quickly went away. She grabbed her bag, flung it over her shoulder and walked out of the Observation Room.
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