[ The stars whisper to her? Fern has only a passing understanding of divination and astromancy, but she's aware that there are spells associated with it. This sounds a bit more... untrained, one might say. Then again, it's just as possible that the woman is using pretty words to describe her spellwork.

The question she's asked might seem a mundane one, and it is, but for Fern her main memory of being on a ship is not a pleasant one. Her expression twitches into one of unease for just a moment, brows slanting and mouth pressing into a line, before she shakes it off. ]

I do know that sailors can be quite superstitious. I've also heard of some who use their magical control over the sky and the elements to assist their sailing. Taking the weather into their own hands, rather than being at the mercy of the sky and the sea.

[ She's spent a good while traveling with a storm sorcerer, so she has some idea of how it works. She wonders what Alden would make of all this. While she found Adrian by the roadside, however, there's been no sign of their other companions. She can only hope something worse hasn't happened to them than ending up here.

No point in worrying about that right now. ]

Go ahead, then. [ Fern nods, spurring the woman on to perform her divination. And as was already said, she'll decide for herself if she wishes to take any meaning from it. ]