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Eirian pondered a world of her own, humm what would she want in it, what would she want it to look like. Animals so many things to consider, she sat there daydreaming for most of the class before she decided she wanted a planet with a medium climate. Not to hot and not too cold. She wanted small fluffy animals on her planet and not too many people a few for her to talk to when she wanted to, but not so many that she would feel crowded and uncomfortable. Eirian signed if only she could design a world just perfect for her. She waved her tail about writing down all the details of her world. High beautiful mountains to look at, beautiful flowers that smelled sweet like candies. A sky of pink and purple, the light always about the same low, Eirian didn't want it to be too much of anything. Perhaps silly, but that was how she wanted her world and she.. She also wanted a number of lakes, streams, and an ocean. She tapped her figures on her desk trying to figure out what else to write as her mind wandered off on it's own. "White fluffy clouds too, I want a perfect world just of my creations." She said softly as she continued to write about her perfect world. Eirian put down her pencil and bite her lip she still hadn't finished the written requirements darn it all why did there have to be rules she didn't want? That was it in her world the rules would be written by her. She wrote that down handing it in to the teacher.

Marco wasn't sure he wanted to go out into the dark by himself, he wondered if his mommy or daddy would go with him, he was a little bit afraid of the dark. He managed to do what he needed to do, even though he was nervous. He looked up at the sky and stars looking for constellations, he spotted what the book called Orion. Then he did some research about it. The constellation looked like a figure to Marco. The book said that Orion was a great hunter, they must have followed Kallistos, after all how could anyone be that skilled hunting without the gods blessing? He read about how an angry god sent a scorpion to attack Orion wow he wondered which of the nine would have been so mad at Orion and why?? Marco wrote his report about Orion and handed it in to the teacher, having enjoyed learning something new.

Helios looked at the science project make his own plant sigh he would rather be swimming, well that was certainly what he would want on his planet lots and lots of water. Very little land, but enough so he could relax and rest when he didn't feel like swimming. The water would be fresh water mostly, though he guessed he could allow for some of it to be salt water for others who preferred that. Lots of fish and very few land-based animals. Since Helios didn't want his world to have a lot of land which wouldn't allow for a lot of land animals. He wanted the land to be filled with fruit trees he liked a lot. Calm peaceful world just perfect for him. It was a silly dream but that's what he wrote for the assignment. Helios wanted to do a lot more swimming he hoped to become a professional swimmer when he graduated the academy. So a world that allowed him to practice his swimming all of the time would be great. Though come to think of it if all the other swimmers got the same practice it wouldn't give him a edge over them. Oh well. The climate he wanted was temperate and pretty warm so he didn't get to cold while he was practicing. Yea Helios had a one track mine but oh well the assignment said nothing about him having to be something other that a swimming jock. Which was a big part of who Helios was.

Teto didn’t consider herself the most imaginative Kumiho around, so she approached the assignment rather hesitantly. Well, if she had to choose any planet to live on, she’d want it to be covered in forests and jungles. Water would only be in the form of rivers, streams and waterfalls; absolutely no large bodies of water. Of course there’d be life, so much of it that you couldn’t walk five steps without seeing a little friend. The insects would always be buzzing, but they’d be much cuter and friendly than the insects Teto had encountered in her life. There’d be plenty of reptiles, especially cutes snakes slithering happily through the trees. Not to mention birds, all with the most beautiful calls and colourful feathers, so the forests would never feel lonely. The trees would be shared by jungle cats and chittering monkeys, swinging from branch to branch care-free. Oh, the trees! They’d be huge, the canopies stretching for miles into the sky. The sentient life – all adapted to be able to climb and traverse trees with ease – would have built beautiful tree houses in the expansive canopies. All the animals would live together peacefully and would eat only the plentiful fruits, vegetables and nuts available in the forests. The moons and the stars were irrelevant – you could never see past the thick canopies of the forests and jungles. But if you did, Teto decided, you’d see one large moon, ten times the size of the real moon. So large, that even at night light would filter through the trees, their leaves always making a gorgeous dappled pattern on the forest floors. Teto was so absorbed in her world she was almost disappointed to realise she didn’t actually live there.

Zeerah had tried to drag his twin outside to look at the stars with him, but Xero had been completely uninterested in the 'useless activity'. Zeerah, however, never passed up an opportunity to do anything that could be even remotely considered useless and had happily looked at the stars. His eyes were drawn to a u-shaped pattern of stars, which after further research proved to be Gemini. Zeerah couldn't help but laugh that he'd been drawn to the constellation associated with twins. He made sure to point this out in his assignment and how he felt it must have been destiny that he was drawn to Gemini. After all, nothing is more important to Zeerah than his twin! Interestingly, the constellation itself consists of the 'twin' stars Castor and Pollux. Zeerah decided that he was Pollux, the brightest of the stars in the constellation and that Xero was Castor. The hybrid enthusiastically included that many papers say Gemini represents the closeness and importance of twinship and that even Xero couldn't deny the magnitude of the stars.

Yuta loved stars! He decided that the first constellation he saw would be the one he reported on. With wide eyes, he found it! "The Big Dipper! Also known as the Ursa Major. There is a consolation similar to it called the little dipper! It is made up of seven bright stars that obviously look like a dipper, or ladle, or some spoon like scooping utensil. A lot of people know it cause it's really bright and use it for navigation. The end of the big dipper points to the north star which is a part of the little dipper and that's a major part of using for navigation. Depending on where you are in the world and what season it is, it will be upside down, starting to turn upside down, right side up, or turning right side up. Some say when it is right side up it is collecting water for the rainy season and during the rainy season it pours it down and creates rain."

Anastara had gotten her mother to help her with finding a good constellation. She, Madla, and Thayne all tromped out at night with a bowl of popcorn and some binoculars with Mads pointing out various interesting constellations. Ana settled on Aries, the ram. It wasn't very ram shaped in her opinion, but it stood for the god of war...or rather the god of war's golden fleeced ram that ended up getting sacrificed to the gods. And that's how it became a constellation.

Roshan, freshling
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Roshan looked up at the night sky and saw, what they think, was the scorpion one. If they remembered correctly the constellation’s name was Scorpio. Once they got home, they looked up more about the constellation. Roshan wasn't normally one for storytelling, but since it was school work they knew they had to.

"The scorpion was sent after the great hunter Orion because he boasted about killing all the wild animals. The Nine did not like the idea of this and wanted to punish the hunter. After the scorpion killed Orion, the creature was given the privilege to be put in the sky as a constellation. It is also a extension of Orion's punishment as it continues to chase the man in the sky."

The next day Roshan turned in the paper which included a drawing of the constellation in question. It was done with precision and exactness so it was hard to say if it was art or a chart for learning purposes only. Roshan certainly wouldn’t have called it art.