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inauguration as head of the Order, couldn't rid himself of the feeling that it had grown slightly while he watched. He turned away from the window with a shudder.
'Well?' he said.
'It's a star,' said the Professor of Astrology, 'I think.'
'You think?'
The astrologer winced. They were standing in Unseen University's observatory, and the tiny ruby pinpoint on the horizon wasn't glaring at him any worse than his new master.
'Well, you see'Bigger than Great A'Tuin and the Disc together,' he said. 'We've checked,' he added hurriedly, 'and we're quite sure.'
That is big,' agreed Trymon. The word "huge" comes to mind.'
'Massive,' agreed the astrologer hurriedly., the point is that we've always believed stars to be pretty much the same as our sun —''You mean balls of fire about a mile across?''Yes. But this new one is, well—big.''Bigger than the sun?' said Trymon. He'd always considered a mile-wide ball of fire quite impressive, although he disapproved of stars on principle. They made the sky look untidy.'A lot bigger,' said the astrologer slowly.'Bigger than Great A'Tuin's head, perhaps?'The astrologer looked wretched.