Thresholder - Chapter 184 - Wilding

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The Farfinder arrived far from the kingdom of Seraphinus above fields and forests of another nation altogether. Hella took them up immediately, and eventually they were past the towering clouds and on the edge of space.“Uh, something is very wrong with the sun,” said Eggy.“What?” asked Perry, coming over to look at her console. He was in the power armor again, just in case something went wrong in the transition.“It’s not the right size,” she replied.“What?” asked Perry.“She’s looking at my report, sir,” said Marchand. “The sun’s perceptual size has grown as we’ve ascended, by 2%.”“Okay, so what does that mean?” asked Perry. It didn’t sound like very much to him.“It means that it’s much closer to us than a star should be,” said Marchand. “Just a moment, calculating parallax.”They all looked at each other while waiting on March.“You didn’t tell us this place had a fucked up sun,” said Mette.“It appears that despite appearances, the object is not a sun, as it matches no known stellar profiles,” said Marchand. “The object which serves as a sun is approximately 133 kilometers across and approximately 15,300 kilometers away.”“What the hell,” said Perry. “There’s no way I would have missed that.”“I’m combing through the video files, (...)