Papyrus Orbit | Porcupine Star-Map Restorer Fantasy Character

The story of Papyrus Orbit

A fictional story inspired by the artwork.

The restorer leans over a slanted desk with one hand resting beside the star chart. Pale quill tips trace the curve of the head and back, catching light from the brass lamp. The gold embroidery along the plum coat repeats the shapes on the chart. Beyond the desk, a telescope points toward a tall window and the moon.

The observatory has a drawer full of maps drawn before the roof was rebuilt. One chart contains a circle of stars the current observers cannot find. The restorer lays it beside the window each clear night and checks the spacing of the dots against the sky. A crease near the center might account for the difference, or the original artist might have drawn from a lower room with a different view.

Brass instruments and rolled papers cluster near the bottom of the picture, leaving the upper half open to blue moonlight. The lamp throws a smaller circle across the working surface. Those two pools of light help separate the room used for close work from the sky the character is studying.

A visitor to this observatory might ask the restorer to identify a constellation marked on an inherited compass. The search could begin at this desk and end on a hill where part of the old observatory wall still stands.

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