Trail of Stars

The Captain sighed. “By the time this lands, we’ll be out there, too.”

“Not a bad end.”

They watched the corpse shimmer in reflected starlight. In a century, it would be too far to be recognizable.

But their descendants would have a trail of stars pointing all the way back to Earth.

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