Page 1: "The Star Who Fell"

Report 1:

Date: 15 May 2012

Title: The Fallen Anomaly

Introduction: It is not only possible, but rather quite probable, that in a community founded by astrophysicists studying celestial coordinates and how they relate to geographic anomalies, that something spectacular, something phenomenal, something out-of-this world, would occur. Therefore, something did.

Objective: Determine the source, cause, and origins of the anomaly.

Question: Can a star become alive?

Hypothesis: If matter once reformed out of dust into galaxies that spurred the foundations of life, then that same matter, ‘star stuff,’ can be reformed again, and in unexpected ways.

Materials: Backpack, pencil, composition journal, ten feet of rope, flashlight, utility knife, compass, emergency first aid kid, portable astronomical scope.

Procedure: Vibrant, magenta clouds on the edge of the horizon were the only distraction from an otherwise clear sky, stars sparking to life one at a time above the seaside town of Starwell. If it weren’t for the fact that there were no astronomical events to be expected and so all the important people had gone on vacation, it would be unfathomable that not every eye was glued up for what promised to be a night of perfect visibility.

But not Charlie Polaris, who was not on vacation, and who was not important, or even notable, except for the sheer accident of his birth and the unfortunate life thereafter.

Perhaps the term ‘unfortunate’ is offensive. Boring? Certainly boring, and would have stayed that way if he wasn’t such an incredibly, desperately sad person...