Stars

Aaryn had spent most of her life chasing the stars. Not just as a dreamer or a stargazer, but as an astrophysicist, an artist, and, as her colleagues affectionately called her, a "cosmic whisperer." But on the night of the Vernal Convergence, everything she thought she knew about the cosmos would be tested.

It began in her small observatory perched on the cliffs of Lira's Point. The equipment, while modest compared to the grand facilities funded by international conglomerates, was tuned to a precision that only Aaryn could manage. She had spent years designing custom sensors and software that could detect the subtlest fluctuations in cosmic signals. That night, her instruments picked up something they never had before: a melody.