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The Lines That Point Downward

Las líneas que apuntan hacia abajo

Every star catalog in the world says Delfina is wrong. Her own measurements say the stars are drifting — and when she traces where they're drifting toward, the answer isn't in the sky. It's a house in the mountains, forty kilometers away.

Part 1 of 3 in The Drift of the Stars

La estrella del registro 4471 estaba donde no debía estar. No era mucho: tres décimas de segundo de arco, una distancia tan pequeña que ningún ojo humano la notaría jamás. Pero Delfina Roldán no medía con los ojos.

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