Timestamp: 46th of Spring, 516 AV
Continued from: Surviving The Weather I
The next day saw Nya sprawled out on Randal’s porch nibbling a banana and quizzing him on some of the things she’d read in the weather book. Randal looked patient, his designs for her Bungalow spread out over the table he had pulled into the shade of his awning.
“Tell me more sayings. I know you’ve heard a few?!” Nya said, stretching out and popping another piece of banana into her mouth. She was soaking up what Randal had to say and was combining it with what she’d learned both from her book and from him the previous day.
Randal sighed, wanting to get his design done undisturbed but resolved in the fact that the Kelvic would follow him around for the rest of the day until she had her answers. Nya was relatively easy to shoo away. All he had to do was give her a task, something that needed to be done, and she’d set off to do it and it would be done well. But he felt guilty because he knew the woman kept to herself mostly and had made very few friends among the settlers. She was, without a doubt, somewhat odd in that she didn’t roam around like the other Kelvics being wild animals. She instead was a knowledge seeker with a passion for learning. When she wanted to know something, she latched onto it like a proverbial dog with a bone and didn’t let go.
He wracked his brain for something to tell her. “When A Circle Manifests Around The Moon… There Will Be Rain Or Snow Soon.” The man said absently, his body still bent over his work desk, putting together the building plans for her bungalow.
Nya repeated the saying to herself then looked up at Randal, her brow furrowed. “What does that mean? I mean a ring around the moon? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one.” The Kelvic said, looking back into her memory for any time she’d seen Leth ringed.
“Sometimes the moon gets a hazy ring around it… where you can see its glow against the clouds and it looks like it is backlit. Its not really a true ring, Nya, but more of an aura or halo. It’s the same phenomenon as the Red Skies At Night saying. There are dust particles in the air being pushed towards us and that means low pressure and rain or snow forthcoming. Remember that flask? If you suspended dirt in that water, the changing pressure on the flask would always drive the dirt around away from it in the water. The same thing happens in the air.” Randal explained.
Nya nodded, understanding this time. She had indeed seen a haze around the moon, but had never equated it with the coming weather. Nor had she thought of it as a ring. Humans always described things oddly.
“So does that mean when the moon is bright and clear with zero haze… where Leth looks crisp in the sky… its high pressure because there is no particles of dust obscuring our view of him and making him look blurred?” The Kelvic asked, reaching over and taking a mango from one of Randal’s fruit bowls and beginning to eat it. The feline rarely stopped eating. Her huge kelvic form demanded it.
“Exactly… and on nights you can see the moon… or even early mornings and early evenings… it’s a quick and simple way to predict the weather and thus know what’s coming and what you should do to prepare.” Randal added, glancing up at the Kelvic who was now eating another fruit no one had bothered to name yet.