Plate XXIX — The Last Rose (the Fading Companion)
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Observing note
Every decade the fainter star of this pair loses a little more light, and every decade the primary's measured position drifts a fraction closer. The house astronomer tracked it for thirty years and wrote, in the last entry, that she no longer believed in coincidence. Southern winter, low and tender, printed in a single deep red ink.
