A town built down a hillside above the water, with an observatory on the ridge above it: the dome stands open along a slit and the telescope inside tracks slowly across the sky. Windows warm and dim on their own rhythms behind the rooflines, smoke drifts from the chimneys, two figures walk the road above the water, and fireflies wander over it. On the hilltop beside the observatory a wolf-eared girl in a red scarf stands watching the moon. At night the roofs are plum-dark under a low moon and a field of stars; by day the hills are green, the roofs are red tile, and the moon has faded to a pale disc in a hazy blue sky.