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No one should have to be sweating in November, but Kiri was. It was very cold outside, and reasonably warm inside, and climbing up all the way to the Astronomy classroom in warm robes and a heavy cloak meant that she had an oily, sweaty face by the time she reached the top of the Tower. She stopped a moment to get her breath back and wipe the sweat off, then she opened the classroom door and slipped inside.
The neat supernova representation on the professor's desk immediately caught her eye, and with a quiet greeting to Professor Forrester, she sat down at the front, staring at the star exploding and reforming.
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