“Get the book,” he said.
Eydis nodded and went back down into the cruiser. She returned with the book, and dropped it onto the deck. Water seeped from the pages. She kneeled and opened it, turning the heavy sheets, until she found the page that Gowgoroup had killed Ki’Ki’Tilish over.
“Tiklik,” Tarkos said. “You’re our astronomer now. What can you tell us of this? It says the World Hammer, the wandering planets, went past or toward a blue star.”
“These name constellations,” Eydis said, pressing a finger on the wet page, “and degrees apparent motion with respect to the Kriani’s Eye, a bright star in the constellation. It says the twin worlds went towards the blue star. About one degree galactic north of it. Here.”
Tiklik seemed to wobble in place, but the black lenses of its eye
