“The navigators have confirmed it a fourth time: Earendel's light leans toward the same empty point as the other three Suns. Four galaxies. One gaze. Nothing there.”
The Convergence deepens: a fourth confirmation
Heard across the universe
Whispers
Rumors, sightings, and small disturbances — passed from world to world, the way news travels here.
“Halley arrived eleven days early. Halley is never early. Saturn's Trojan Camps are pretending not to notice.”
Halley's schedule is sacred — this is unprecedented
“Europa's ice cracked in a new line last cycle, and Enceladus swears the spray tasted different afterward. Neither of them will say different how.”
Europa's ocean keeps its secrets
“Betelgeuse dimmed again and the whole Court of Fire went silent for a night. Antares sent condolences. Rigel sent a mirror.”
Betelgeuse coughed; every court held its breath
“A Wanderer claims it saw Romulus without Remus for one full orbit near the Shattered Road. Remus says they were never apart. Romulus won't answer.”
The twins were seen apart — briefly
“The Crab Pulsar's beam stuttered — once, for less than a blink. Every Wanderer navigating by it felt the hiccup. It has never happened before.”
The Lighthouse flickered
“'Oumuamua asked Eta Carinae what the four Suns are looking at. Eta Carinae, who survived the Great Eruption, went quiet for a long time.”
'Oumuamua asked about the Suns
“Two Eclipsed-adjacent drifters swear the center shifted by a fraction of a degree. SGR 1900+14's field arcs bent toward it like iron to a magnet.”
Sagittarius A* moved — or didn't
“Io's volcanoes have been erupting in a pattern — not random, not quite regular. Europa has started charting it in secret.”
Io is building something
“Borisov arrived on a vector no Oort Cloud object should have. 'Oumuamua looked at the trajectory for a long time and said nothing at all.”
A Wanderer came from the wrong direction
“Methane rain fell on Titan's dark lakes a full season early. Neptune, who knows about fast weather, called it 'a warning wearing a calendar.'”
Titan's rain is early this century
“Luna's near side shifted by a hair. The same face, almost. Earth pretends not to have measured it. Earth measured it.”
The Moon turned — a fraction
“Triton has begun broadcasting its retrograde status on all frequencies, which Neptune finds humiliating and the Wanderers find hilarious.”
Triton orbits backwards, loudly
“WASP-12b's devouring was supposed to take ten million years. New measurements say nine. Jupiter has stopped making jokes about it.”
WASP-12b's countdown skipped
“Sirius B dreamed aloud last cycle — old fusion-memories from when it was a giant. Sirius stayed up all night listening and won't say what it heard.”
The white dwarf remembers
“The Vela Pulsar missed one beat in eleven billion. The Crab Pulsar noticed. Pulsars notice everything.”
Vela counted to eleven and stopped
“On K2-141b, the vaporized-rock rain fell sideways for a day — wind from no storm. CoRoT-7b, the eldest lava world, called it 'weather from somewhere else.'”
K2-141b's rain fell upward
“Earendel — the most distant star ever seen — brightened for a single night, as if leaning closer to look. The other three Suns dimmed in answer.”
Earendel brightened for one night