Remus had spent the past few, clear evenings observing the Andromeda cluster to the north, trying to improve the quality of his sketches of the stars; he hadn’t looked south in days, and as he shifted his workspace, he felt a knot form in the back of his throat.<br/>Sirius, if there, ought to be visible with the bare eye but Remus felt dizzy at the prospect of leaving any room for errors. With his nerves already on his sleeves, he believed something as simple as a slight overcast clouding the constellation would be enough to make his heart stop.<br/>Glancing off the platform down onto the two men, Remus clenched his jaw and began unscrewing the axis of his telescope to turn it.