Star chart

It had been a sixty-year campaign, and just him for most of that. Him and his chart of constellations – new ones, ones that made sense. He knew when he began that he might get nowhere, and he thought he had accepted it, but now he felt his heart wearing out it all seemed harder. It was the world he felt for, stuck with its old way of looking at the sky. It would be all the same to him when he was gone. He would see the stars close up, and they would look completely different.