Firenze watched the stars from the top of the Astronomy Tower. The stars were clearer here than they had ever been from between the leaves of the trees growing in the Forbidden Forest.
The climb up wasn't meant for centaurs, though, and it was a mission getting up the stairs of the winding tower, but, once at the top, it was more than worth the trouble.
Humans truly made some marvellous things, not all of them natural or good for nature, but marvellous nevertheless.
He doubted that other… Professor would bother looking at the skies on a fine night as this. She was more focussed on her crystal balls, which were fickle things in terms of fortune-telling. They definitely weren't what Firenze would rely on, but he supposed each person and creature had their own way of doing things, and he wasn't one to judge.
The stars weren't telling much today either, but that didn't detract from the beauty of them. That was what drew him to the stars beyond any sort of fortune-telling: their distant beauty.
Written for the September Back to School Challenge: (location) Astronomy Tower