The Last Star Map
The coal oil lamp on Ada's desk guttered as the first star vanished.She did not look up from her notebook. She had written the entry three hundred and twelve times now -- the position, the magnitude, the spectral classification of a star that no longer existed. Her quill scratched across the yellowed paper with the same mechanical precision it had shown every night for the past twenty-three...
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