Rowan straightened from her telescope, adjusting it minutly then looking back through it. Here, in the inky darkness of an endless nature was where she found peace to study the stars. She looked up above her at the endless carpet of sparkling darkness and smiled. Beautiful.<br/><br/>She pushed her dark hair behind her ears and knelt once more to look through the telescope. Normally she was just mapping constalations, but tonight she had a very specific target. The comet that was supposed to pass overhead sometime tonight. A tiny streak to the naked eye, but in the telescope it would be a sight worth seeing.<br/><br/>She heard a sound behind her and tensed, turning to scan the inpenetrable darkness around her as she tried to sooth her irational fears. There was nothing out there. She was alone. What could be hiding in the darkness?