Look closer.
A pale blue-white giant wrapped in streaming stellar wind.
Follow the four flowing arms around its bright face. The wind is restless even where the surface seems almost smooth.
A story from the frontier · Lore draft
The First Light
The survey crew thought the blue on their screens was a calibration error. Then the wind turned, and the same pale light ran across every window on the ship. They logged no discovery speech, only a long silence.
