Look closer.
An orange-red star half hidden by its own cloud of dust.
Try to follow its outline as the dust shifts. The edge keeps slipping between light and cloud.
A story from the frontier · Lore draft
The Unfinished Sun
No two observers agreed where the star ended. Each marked a different edge in the dust, and each revised it before the next watch. The expedition kept the first chart as a record of how little an outline can tell you.