Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-26948051-20160205055115/@comment-26948051-20160313050517

"The phases are with respect to the earth. One half of the moon is always illuminated by the sun, it just depends on where that half is with respect to the earth. We just pick the area that's most commonly in the light to work with," Mimi explained.

Tokki nodded. "The dark side still gets light, but not as much. And what it doesn't get that a lot of our plants rely on is Earth shine. It makes it really useless as far as growing crops and things goes. And our bodies require a certain amount of earth shine to stay healthy. Most moon-dwellers have to take special supplements when we're on Earth because we can't get that here."