The Conservatory of the Cosmos did not teach music. It taught sonomancy: the art of translating celestial truth into resonance. Elara, its youngest prodigy, could play the precise harmonic frequency of a supernova or the delicate rhythm of an orbiting binary pair. But her final trial, the "Song of the Forgotten Planets," was a mystery. It was not a composition to be learned, but one to be remembered.Her instructor, Maestro Vega, led her to the Star-Veil, a dome where the light of dead stars was preserved. "The planets of the Lyra system did not die with a bang," he intoned.