The body was sitting in the astronomer's chair, looking at a sky that no one could see anymore.
Dr. Aris Thorne's eyes were burned white — not scarred, not cataracted, but truly white, as if someone had poured liquid chalk into his sockets. The coroner called it "retinal photodamage," which was a polite way of saying his eyes had been exposed to something brighter than any star. Det. Marcus Rourke had seen a lot of dead bodies in his twenty years on the force. He had seen the murder...
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