Octantis has a minion!

Xing the Revontuli

Cressida had been sickly her entire life due to some weird incurable disease that her parents refused to tell her the name of. She had spent most of her entire 7 years of life in and out of hospitals, being shuttled to doctor after doctor, specialist after specialist and none of them could give her parents an answer. She had been through experimental cure after experimental cure and all they really did was make her sicker and more fragile than she already was. Still, she believed that life was sacred though she often wondered if death would be easier. She had heard her parents crying at night when they believed she was asleep and while she was young she still knew it was because of her. She had heard, from one of the patients at one of the hospitals that she had once been a patient at that the stars were really the souls of those who passed on. They were watching over the living, reassuring those who were still alive after someone had passed on that they were ok, and that death was not to be feared.

She had also heard that shooting stars were the messenger of the gods that they transmitted the wishes of the living toward those beyond the mortal plane. She was told that if she wished hard enough on a shooting star that maybe, just maybe her wishes would come true. It so happened that one night right before she was to go to bed, a shooting star passed outside her window and she made a wish. The wish was simple, be healthy, and live a normal life. Above all, she wished that her parents could find peace that, if she did pass on they would know that she was still watching over them among the stars.

But her wish was not granted; instead, the gods gave her a different wish. The next day when her parents woke to wake her up they discovered her gone, her soul having departed her mortal body, but that night as they looked at the stars and wondered they realized she was finally at peace. She would be watching over them, one bright star twinkling among the thousands in the night sky.

The real Octantis refers to the star Sigma Octantis, the south star which is on the constellation Octans. It is a dim star with a magnitude of 5.42 and while classified as a giant is barely visible from earth. It is currently 270 light years away from earth. The star is also represented on the Brazilian national flag.
information found via Sigma Octantis wikipedia

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Quote from the poem, "The Old Astronomer to his Pupil" by Sarah Williams
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