Urania's silence from the car ride had been completely replaced, and she spoke rapidly now as she led Merlin to the spot she was thinking of. She spoke- with great animation- about how Neowise was the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since 1997, and that it's orbit was 6700 years. About how tonight was the closest it would come to earth at 103 million kilometres, about its brightness of magnitude 1- brighter than any recorded modern comet- and the second tail it had developed.
By the time they reached the stop Urania wanted, she had barely paused to let him have a word.
"I am, perhaps, not containing my excitement very well," Urania admitted, but was still smiling as she set up her telescope.