01.30.2016
The sun fell past the plains that spread out to the west of Suu-manth. The wind came in hard from east of the Knuckles, and the astronomers heard it howling through rocks overhead. Another telescope had made it into town from a nearby town’s Association of Heavenly Exploration. Donated to help discover as much as possible about the wolf from such a good vantage point.
The group helped assemble it and test out the focus and clarity. It’d been shipped in haste, and there was the possibility something had come loose in the bumpy carriage ride over. With a few small adjustments, it was ready for use.
This telescope was smaller than the other one, and not as powerful, but it would be a good way for another set of eyes to watch the skies. This one was pointed at Mars, and the larger telescope was aimed at one of the planets further out, Jupiter.
Night fell deeper, and all eyes scanned the scars for movement. A shout from the operator of the larger telescope brought a crowd over. He narrated as he saw the wolf appear from Jupiter’s shadow and gulp down several orbiting moons which the wolf now dwarfed in size.
From here, the wolf dashed for Jupiter, coming so close as to skim the surface of the atmosphere and drag a bit of the red gas in his eddy until it fell back down to the surface and then sank under the tumultuous top layer. From Jupiter, the wolf turned into a white streak as he made for Mars.
Both telescopes followed him now, and people took down notes as quickly as they could. The wolf comet was now visible with the naked eye, though most detail was only visible to the telescopes. Mar’s two moons were taken as the wolf circled his way down to Mars.
He landed on the surface and his bulk displaced great amounts of air which rushed away from him in what must have been a hellacious storm. He sniffed a bit at the ground and then pounced on the ground with its two front paws. Cracks radiated from the impact and dust leapt up. Several more times the wolf did this and the cracks spread further and deeper. The wolf didn’t stop until the entire planet was shattered and he could gulp down smaller pieces.