Maybe he'd start a sketch? West considered it but didn't really want to let go of Alice's hand in order to actually manage it. Instead he went for more food, last hotdog on his plate. He'd have to go get more soon. He WAS still hungry after all.

He checked the time and made a few more notes, his mouth full of food. He'd already noticed some of the movement of the stars but then he'd been here a while already. Now the rest of the night would be tracking the continuing movement of his chosen constellations. And holding Alice's hand for as long as she allowed it, and as long as people didn't notice and all.

Hmm could he accio some more food here? He was out of coffee now too.

Laura was really confused and now where was the ice-cream that she really needed surely there should be some at a camp out or maybe not, she didn't really care. "Help?" Laura hoped someone would hear her because she was lost and confused and now she had to find something that resembled and ice-cream right, that was the name of the game wasn't it or was she confused?

It was almost time to start sketching...as Dylan pulled his notebook and quill. Not that his drawing would be some masterpiece of whatever...To be honest, it'd probably be a mess...

The Slytherin knew he had no talent in this area. There was no shame in admitting as much, either.

...Oh, wait. The spell was wearing off. Lifting his wand up, he did the wave over and eyelid tap, restating the incantation, "Oculo Focalis!" After a few seconds, his magnified sight was restored...and Dylan carried on with what he'd originally intended to do. For giggles, he wanted to start sketching with his eyes all trippy-like. Maybe with being able to see the fine lines of ink and parchment better...he'd draw something awesome. It seemed legit enough...

Looking back up, he noted Polaris in the handle of the Little dipper....Ursa Minor...and grinned. 'Polaris' made him think of polar bears...for whatever reason. Either way, it was easy enough for him to spot right off the bat...since Draco was legit RIGHT there.

Draco, the dragon.

Offhandedly, he wondered what type of dragon Draco was...Swedish Short-Snout? Common Welsh Green? Antipodean Opaleye?.............Norwegian Ridgeback? Probaby was an Opaleye....since they were pearly and whitish...

With the textbook on her lap and her face looking upwards, Cassia's eyes wandered searching the sky for the 'W' shaped constellation. She had spotted during class and that hadn't taken much time. And even if it did she wasn't bored. Oddly enough she enjoyed the calm of all this sitting in the tent and stargazing. Like she might do it again, without homework. Which counted as a lot for the Slytherin.

Reaching for another cookie from the plate, the blonde held it with her lips and kept her eyes on the sky. For some reason her eyes kept trailing back to Usra Minor and Polaris. Maybe because they were the brightest? Or perhaps because she concentrated on them. So she tried not to keep her eyes on them. She saw a lot of shapes and stars but she was looking specifically for Cassiopeia, yeah she kinda gets stubborn sometimes. And it was the easiest since it was in a letter's shape. Not much chance of mistaking.

Her eyes lingered on a certain spot, wondering if this was 'W' or just a twirl of stars. But she wasn't sure and as she recalled from the class it the constellation's shape. It didn't take much time till she found the constellation and that called for a proud beam....To her plate of cookies.

Let's watch the stars s'more.

Coffee and ice cream made you want to do nothing other than watch the stars lazily and think about how awesome ice cream is. Which is exactly what Nigel was do at that moment. He did not care that he was suppose to be looking for any old constellation in the sky. No he just wanted to watch the star move across the sky It was a beautiful night.

Still lounging about. Nigel was more interested in what was in this tent and what other people where doing. Once they finished looking at the stars. Nigel had only one thing left to do and that could wait till late. The night was still young.

He should get started soon. It was not like he had all night or something.

Astronomy homework. The fact that Ness was actually here and doing homework on a subject she was not too interested in was a huge improvement in her opinion. Better get this night over and done with then, because Ness wanted her proper sleep soon again.

Shnuggled all up in her boyfriends hoodie the Hufflepuff made her way to the grounds were the tent was located not too far from the black lake. The tent was...different not like anything she'd ever seen and it was definitely Professor Weirds style. Not to bad though kinda cool and weird...but it would do quite well for being warm and star gazing. Taking a step inside, she looked around at all the pillows and cushions and plonked on one and looked into the sky.

Right. time to telescope her eyes then.

"Oculo Focalis." she said quietly, tapped her eyelids with her wand and looked back to the sky. Much better she could now see the stars more clearly.

So stargazing time then?

Flamsteed never said we could not find the constellation they mentioned in class. So Nigel was going to take the lazy way out and find Corona Borealis.

All he had to do was find it now. Not to hard right. Eh.

Polaris and the little dipper where still visible. So all Nigel had to do was go to the left of those stars and hope that it is visible. If Nigel's logic is sound and it probably is not.

Looking up at the star was making Nigel's eyes strain. Maybe he should take a break. No. Find that star and he was basically done. That sounded a whole lot better. Nigel looked at the star with a purpose now. Not a good purpose. But it was one none the less.

And after another five minutes of intense star watching. He found the elusive Corona Borealis. Tricky constellation that was. Now that easy part writing all this down on parchment and ending Oculo Focalis. Nigel went to work and after a good 10 minutes finished writing all that was needed and ended Oculo Focalis, before his eyes started to strain. Strained eyes were a no no.

"Old person's drink?!" Ethan stared at Minerva, not even knowing how to respond to that. "But.. I like my coffee." He pouted a little and peered into his cup. It was not an old person's drink.. it was how he woke up in the morning.. every morning. And he liked his cup of liquid caffeine. It didn't make him old and uptight as she seemed to keep insisting. Looking back up at her, he gave her an odd look and shook his head. "No.. I like my coffee black. Besides, it won't be hot anymore if you put ice cream in it." Sheesh. He liked ice cream as much as the next person, well, maybe not as much as the people here, but in his coffee? Nah..

He glanced over at his hyper girlfriend as she did some sort of dance upon finding another constellation. Pices? He squinted up at the sky.. yeah, he wasn't sure where that one was.. and he looked back at her and shook his head. "No one said you were dumb.. It's just your newfound excitement seems.. drastic." He was still sure that something was going on and he was going to find out what it was.

Oh.. he was so distracted right now that he was sort of forgetting what he was supposed to be doing until he saw her pull out a piece of parchment. He supposed he should be sketching as well. Ethan set his old man drink cup of coffee down and pulled out his journal from his bag, sketching out Ursa Minor and Polaris.. the ones he had already found. He had just finished those two and was about to lift his green eyes skyward again when he turned to look at her suspiciously. The ice cream again.. And Flamsteed. Were the two connected somehow in her sudden change of behavior? There was definitely something with the ice cream, that much he was certain, but he wondered what the teacher's role in this was. He was a strange one himself. He'd give her the class and homework thing.. she was one to get excited over that type of thing.. though not to this extent.. but as for the ice cream? "It's one thing to be happy to get ice cream during class.. but this is much, much more than that.." It made him sad, really, to think something could seriously be wrong with her. A trip to the healer was happening later.

And apparently Ethan's thoughts on the Slytherin Prefect were too soon, because as soon as Daichi saw Minerva all the craziness that the other Prefect was apparently holding in came bubbling up to the surface. He could not help the urge to roll his eyes when those two nearly bounced off the walls of the tent with excitement over their made up ice cream constellation. And then..?! Ethan gave Daichi a scandalized look at his words, which was turned on to Minerva as well as she laughed. "My face does not look funny.." he said, turning back to the Slytherin. "What is that supposed to mean?!" He touched his hand to his face.. was something on it? Then he looked back at Minerva and couldn't help but smile a little at her words. See.. she still thought he looked good.. "Thanks, Min," he mumbled, appreciative of the compliment but still trying to figure out what was going on with the craziness of this class.

But seriously, he needed to get this homework done. It was like Astronomy class all over again. These two distracting him so badly that he wasn't getting his work done. Now, what did he need to find next? Ursa Major was another easy one to find and he quickly located that one using Ursa Minor as a reference.. besides, he had already found them in class so a no-brainer there. He glanced back at Min upon hearing her words. Holding hands? He wasn't sure who she was talking about but it was kind of a nice idea if she wasn't acting so crazy right now!. "Once I finish the assignment, if you want to just hold hands and look at the stars, that would be great," he said with a smile, but somehow in the back of his mind he didn't think that would happen. She seemed far to hyper to be content with just sitting still with him to gaze at the night sky.

Deciding to get more coffee before he actually began drawing, Dylan stood and made his way back towards the refreshments table. Pouring himself more of the hot beverage, he loaded it down with more creamer and sugar. Lots of sugar. Yes, he was going against all his own rules but whatever. It was the only way he'd be able to get it done tonight with this all fresh in his mind...since the Slytherin didn't have any of his potions readily available.

So, caffeine it'd have to be.

Also grabbing a hotdog, he mosied back over to his spot. He finished it off quickly, taking gulps of the hot drink before picking up his notebook and setting to work...It was weird with his depth perception all wonky due to the spell...but he'd been able to walk just fine...Uncapping some green ink...because he was forever Slytherin...Dylan glanced up between the night sky and then down at his notebook.

They were supposed to illustrated how it moved, yes...? The rotations happening over the course of hours. Eyeing his watch, he noted that it'd been about six hours since he'd gotten here and really started looking. In that time...everything had moved but Polaris...So, that lone fact was legit. Polaris really didn't move...

Draco was in a different position, though...as were the various Zodiac constellations he'd seen at the start of all this...

Interesting...

So... he was starting things a little later than usual. And a little later meant sometime close to the deadline of the assignment.

Good going, Summers.

Dressed head to foot in his footie onesie, a hoodie and his slippers -- it was cold, you see -- Alec entered the tent cautiously. Okay... so there were other people still completing this assignment too. Awesome. He wasn't too late then. He didn't know what he would have done if he had come here dressed ridiculously -- because, let's face it, he did look a little too comfortable right now -- only to be told that he had to go-

OH LOOK! Was that FOOD?

... BRILLIANT! Food and stargazing was a really good combination! The sixteen year old headed straight towards the table, his bag swinging a little by his side. Food... food... OH LOOK WAS THAT ICE CREAM? Awesome! The boy grabbed a plate and started piling it up with some hot dogs and s'mores before grabbing a bowl of ice cream as well. Because... sustenance. You needed that, yeah?

Turning away from the table, Alec headed over towards a cushion and lay down. How awesome was this? Nom nom nom...

Mellow. This was confusing.

The Hufflepuff turned, opened the bag she had brought with her and peeked at her textbook to figure out what she was actually looking for. A pout formed on her lips as she read over the two Ursas and the Cassiopeia. Confusing shapes. Pout.

Yeah she was gonna do this the easier way, and that was by finding a 'W' shaped constellation with that confusing C name. Looking up again she adjusted her eye-sight and put her Hufflepuff finding skills on and she peered at the sky.

Hmmm..where was this thing now?

Was that....no..no that was something else and ohhh the moon looked real pretty. But that was not what she was looking for. A few blinks later and she attempted to focus even more. Right. A W shape she could find it...and find it she did.

As a smile lit up on her face she pointed up in the sky, so she wouldn't loose it. Now. To find the Polaris star. More pouting.

An unusual chill begins to fall on the grounds. Frost begins to lick at the tent, crawling its way up from the base and making the sides appear a bit foggy. The coldness somehow finds its way into the tent. Beverages chill and some even freeze over. A dark shadow flies by. Before you have time to react, however, the shadow has gone but the cold still lingers.

This hotdog... nom nom nom... nice... nom nom nom...

... He... had constellations to be finding, yeah?

The guy placed his half eaten hot dog down onto his plate again before grabbing up a tissue and wiping his hands on it, his grey-blue eyes still on the sky. Right... he didn't need to read over the assignment again to know that Polaris needed to be found. It was... slightly... obvious? Right?

Even so, he'd still try and find it. Just because... practice made perfect.

So to find Polaris, he needed to first find the W shape of the Cassiopeia, yeah? And then the Ursas. But before he could do that... "Oculo Focalis!" he said, swishing his wand and then tapping it on his closed eyelids. He blinked a couple of times, trying to adjust to the new super!vision, as he liked to put it. Super!vision... just... like... Superman...

GRIN.

... Anyways... W... The Hufflepuff craned his neck and tilted his head this way and that. All sorts of shapes and stars jumped out at him until...

"FIND!" Point poi- ... WOAH.

Alec jumped a little and looked around. Was he... seeing things? Or feeling things? Because it was cold in here. A lot colder than what the end of January/beginning of February ought to be like. ... Weird. Maybe he should have brought out a blanket or something instead.

... But... Polaris. Where are you?

It was so weird...but Dylan began drawing...using Lumos and his wand as added light. Draco had moved in a perfect counterclockwise circle around Polaris...All the stars seemed to be basing their movement on Polaris, actually.

He carefully sketched that out...pausing here and their to refuel with coffee.

Remembering that he had to use another star from the lesson, he went with Orion, the Hunter. Besides Draco....Orion was the other personal favorite. That badboy was one of the brightest, after all...One of the brightest FOR one of the brighest. Him, in other words...

#NoShame

Fighting off a yawn, Dylan continued on...He actually had this really neat idea about mapping this thing out...First, he'd need to get the stars plotted and whatnot...but in the end, it was going to be so awesome. The heightened eyesight was helping, too...

There was just a few hours left of night...So, the stars would be moving more....but getting started initially was good. Polaris was plotted...Draco and Orion had been plotted....

Yaaaaaaaaaawn.

..........

Why was it suddenly so cold?

With her hand still up in the sky, the red head attempted to find the star they were meant to look for. It was meant to be exactly opposite the Cassiopeia constellation...that was what it was called, yep? Anyways that polar..polaris star, yep that was it, that was what she needed to focus on now.

Hazel-blue eyes wide open she scanned the sky some more and focused on the areas right beside where her finger was left pointing. Opposite? ..But opposite could be anywhere. Back to the textbook then.

Turning her head slightly and adjusting her sight with the free hand, the Hufflepuff tried to read her textbook once more or look at a picture. Her eyes remained on her book for a few minutes and when she had what she wanted she looked back up.

So the W that she was pointing at, or had just lost with her moving hand was pointing towards the star. Okay. That wasn't too bad. After once again adjusting her eye sight and finding her W she was ready to find the star. She looked to where the W pointed and right north above it was a star with a funny constellation beside it. That had to have been it, along with one of the ursas.

Giggle. Star found then, but now she needed to see these constellations paths. Cassiopeia was the first she'd stick with and as for the second she needed to find that.

BRRRRRRRRR Merlin. The cold, it just came out of nowhere. Renesmee tried to obtain more warmth from her boyfriend's hoodie. Could she go back to the castle and forget about star gazing? Because she was cold and chills were running down her back.

Trying not to think about how cold it had gotten in the tent -- why weren't there blankets? -- Alec focused his attention on the sky and the sky only. Because... he was here to do an assignment, yeah? And so what if it was a little colder than usual? It was probably the weather being... weird. Or something. Yeah...

... POLARIS! Focus, Summers!

He narrowed his grey-blue eyes a little, scanning the skies for the Dippers. He usually found them a little harder to find than Cassiopeia, actually. Because finding a letter of the alphabet was easy but the others had all sorts of loops in their shapes. Just like most of the conste-

OH HEY!

Grinning slightly, the boy reached up a hand and started tracing a shape in the sky. Dipper... but which one? The Hufflepuff reached into his bag and took out his textbook, flipping it open to the correct page. Okay... Dipper... according to the shape in the book, he had just found Ursa Major. Which meant that Ursa Minor was somewhere... nearby...

THERE! Point point.

He let go of his book and, using his fingers, matched up where the constellations met up in the sky. Because... that's where Polaris would happen to be, yeah? Right... in the middle... of all of that swirly pattern.

HEY THERE POLARIS!

... He... still wanted a blanket.

Mhmmmmmm...

Eyes narrowed playfully at him before she looked around some more.

Carefully picking up the KITTYYYYYYY, Medea was hesitant at first, eyeing the cat for any distress. All seemed well though. She DID have three cats of her own and they HAD met before. Sorta. N'aaawwww lookit his adorableness!

"Aaaany time, Airey." she responded softly in a voice as if talking to a baby, completely focused on the kitty and petting him behind his ears. Perhaps moving around a little in a slooooow dance.

Slow twirl here.... Move over there....

PET THE KITTYYYYYY!

It was the frost upon the side of the tent that caught her attention first.

Her slow dancing with the kittyyy slowed even more to a pause as she caught sight of the rather, unusual, frost crawling up the side of the tent. Squinting at it, she moved closer to the bubble tent's wall, bending down a little to inspect it. Oh, how nice. This sooooo went against her side of the 'sleeping inside a tent versus outside' matter. She could just see Airey's triumphant smile on his face.

Not looking in his direction now!

Shaking her head a somewhat, her attention turned back to the much more interesting and warm kittyyyyy. Ooooohh...

Brrrr. Just got even more chilly.

Ignoring. He was just going to ignore Medea dancing with that feline. Yep. Although it was still hard not to look her direction.

So he went back to sipping on coffee when all of sudden --------------

"MEHTUNIZSNUCK!" he exclaimed, his tongue stretching a bit as he attempted to pull his mug away from his lips but to no avail. WHY in the name of Orion's belt was his tongue....AND SINCE WHEN HAD HIS COFFEE FROZEN OVER?!

Blue eyes darted around when he saw a shadow fly past. Or had it been more than one?! Hard to tell considering they were on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Shadows everywhere and all that.

You know what this chill needed? More ice cream. Only that was hard to do with his mug stuck to his face. "Mehdia? Ais kureem?" he asked, pointing towards the ice cream and his empty bowl.

OOC: HOMEWORK RPING IS OFFICIALLY OVER
No more RPing may be done for homework credit. You ARE allowed to RP packing up, reacting to thiiiiiiiiings, and whatnot. I'll close the thread later today.

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......She'd fallen asleep, apparently. At least she wasn't being feasted on by ants considering how close her face was to her unfinished bowl of ice cream. It can still be eaten though, and so once she was done rubbing her eyes, she grabbed stuck a spoonful of the liquidized ice cream into her mouth. Err.......ew. "Bleh." Yeah, it can still be eaten....but it wasn't anywhere near the real goodness of ice cream so she'd just get rid of that and get herself another helping. But not before she keep track of where her stars for tonight were currently located.

Her dark brown sleepy!eyes roamed the skies and for a while, she just stared nonsensically...quite drawn to sleep still, but after a few minutes, she found Polaris...two and two basically went down afterwards. She managed to locate Draco and then Orion. Thereafter, she took note of the time with a glance at her wristwatch and to her journal the recordings went.

Scribble. Skeeeeetch. Scribble.

Now she can go and get ice cream....

Beezus left her notes and things sprawled on her cushions, grabbed the bowl of ice cream and headed for the Food Room....On the way, however, she stopped short on her tracks because of something.....cold.

At the same time, her tattoo on her nape felt like itching. O__o .....Blink. Blink.

Er....yeah.....ice cream.....yeah...

Daichi grinned towards Minerva and rolled his eyes when he heard Dylan telling her to be quiet. 'Don't mind him' he mouthed to her and then giggled before continueing his search.

He rubbed his tired eyes as he turned his gaze back to the night sky. There was one thing that he REALLY wanted to find and that was his own zodiac sign. He had already checked the chart in his book so he kind of knew in which direction he had to look which was East right?

But before he could search for his sign he realised something entirely different. Was it just him or was it getting colder in here? He looked around and therefore missing that the bubble tent got slightly foggy. He did notice that some of the drinks were getting frozen over and he frowned. What was happening?

He shivered as he searched for a blanket. It was coooold! Ah, as long as his ice cream didn't melt he had no worries~

Jory had began packing away his stuff now. But he wanted moooore ice cream! Loads more! He also needed sleep, but that would come later. He was so hyper so surely sleep would not come easily. Humming, he continued to back. ut suddenly he became aware it was colder. A lot colder.

Shivering a bit, Jory looked around. And stared. Fog was not there a few minutes ago. What had happened? And the drinks were freezing. O_o "Ooookay then,'' Jory muttered. Something was wrong.

As Kace was finished star gazing for the night, he began to feel a sudden chill. He felt goosebumps forming on his arms and the rest of his body. As Kace looked down at his hot coco he was sipping on, it froze over. Say what.....?

"Awww man my hot coco...." he said to himself. The warmness from the cup kept his fingers toasty was now gone. He was gonna have to go in soon. Plus he needed to sleep. Then he packed up his stuff and was going to go back to the castle soon, but he wanted some more snacks. He got some more and one more hot coco for the road. He filled one up and filled it with whip cream and sipped it. Aaaahhh....much better.

Minerva swung her head around in search for who Daichi was talking about.. “Sorry about who? Oh him..” She glared towards Dylan for a few moments and then turned to Daichi. “Didn’t even hear him really. I promised Oakey I would be good, so I’ve learned to tone certain people out.” Plus who cares, they were allowed to have fun while they did their work but she wasn’t sure he knew how to have fun. She then giggled at Ethan, “Yes old man drink, but you are getting up there in the age. Almost eighteen and stuff.” He needed to spice up that coffee and ice cream was just the way to do it. “Coffee smells funny.. Ice cream does not.” That was her reasoning and she felt it was great reasoning.



She then smirked, “Of course no one said I was dumb, who on earth would try to fight that and classes, homework and fun star watching was exciting.. So get excited!!” She grabbed his hands and bounced them.. See Ethan like this, but it spilled his old man drink coffee all over her hand. “Ouch She waved the burnt hand around and then stuck it on her ice cream. “See two uses for ice cream. It’s super yummy and it was now an ice pack.” because you had a bad old mans drink.. bad.. She waved him off as he continued about the ice cream and excitement. There was nothing wrong with her NOTHING he need to just stop. She was having fun and what was wrong with that. Taking another bite of ice cream she looked at him, “Sure you don’t want any?” She stuck the spoon in front of his mouth. Come on Ethan have a bite.. there right there… take it.



She giggled as Ethan looked at Daichi weird with the face comment. It was comical no matter who said it and it wasn’t true he had a wonderful forget very thing face. She glanced at it.. Yes it was pretty wasn’t it.. and then YAY he would hold hands with her.. Bouncing and clapping she was so happy about this, but soon found herself stepping closer to him shivering. It was cold… why did it get so cold, but soon her smile was back. “SOMEONE TURNED THE COLD UP SO THE ICE CREAM WOULDN’T MELT!! SWEEEETTTT!!!” That was beyond awesome that someone would totally think of the ice cream and do that.

Ethan looked to his coffee again, the hint of a pout still reminiscent on his face. He knew Minerva didn't like to drink the stuff herself, but he didn't realize she didn't approve of him drinking it. But he was going to whether she like it or not.. he couldn't not drink it.. It was like her and her diet coke.. He eyed her a bit as she mentioned his age.. mhmm, his birthday was coming up very soon. "Eighteen isn't old.. besides, we're the same age right now.." Yep, both seventeen.. even if he wouldn't be much longer.. and even if they were both Of Age.. didn't mean they were old, right? She was starting to confuse him with her talk.. "Coffee smells great," he mumbled, still confused with her reasoning.

He just stared at her as she continued, her words just making no sense to him anymore, then looked down incredulously as she grabbed his hands and bounced them. And she says she's not hyper?? Then he gasped and moved his coffee away when she spilled the hot liquid on herself. "Are you alright?" He started to grab her hand to look at it but then.. what was she doing?? Using ice cream as an ice pack.. well, that was interesting.. though he supposed it did work in a pinch.. Besides, the coffee wasn't that hot, he figured she'd be okay, but.. "Do you think you need some burn paste?" And the ice cream again. Ethan's eyes nearly crossed as they focused on the spoon she stuck right in his face and he shook his head. "Nah, I'm good.." He had a feeling that he would be subjecting himself to becoming a hyper hot mess if he ate what he was beginning to suspect was "special" ice cream.

Then suddenly it seemed to get much colder and he put his arm around his girlfriend as she stepped closer to him. Huh.. that was weird. It seemed so warm in the tent just a minute ago. Green eyes snapped to the shadow as it flew past him, but before he gave it much thought his head turned as his girlfriend started yelling in excitement. Merlin. He fought the urge to roll his eyes, but then.. they drifted back to the spot where he had seen that shadow, then back to his girlfriend again. Something just clicked on in his brain..