High listeners, I'm Ashley Flowers and I have a story I want to tell you. A story about five

seemingly random deaths connected by a strange mystery. So gather round and listen close.

I Angela Obernower, Professor at Mount Aitth State University, being of competent and sound

mind hereby present my findings on paper into the deaths of Gregor Sagole, Kyle Randolph,

Tate McCain, Rhea Wilterman, and Destiny Wilterman. Allow me to propose a question. If you were to

observe the stars at nightfall, what might you perceive? Now I admit this question is peculiar,

but one like the Phoenix that has consistently revived itself over the last few millennia.

Moreover, this question best serves as a heuristic to understanding the facts to follow.

So if you are determined to consider my forthcoming account, I strongly encourage you to partake

in this simple exercise. Go outside at night and look at the sky. What do you perceive?

The question is purposefully ambiguous so that responses will consistently vary.

But you see, in this variation, we're offered a glimpse at the mind. For it is impossible to encapsulate

the entirety of what was seen, but we can begin to describe what was perceived. And perception is

wholly dependent on the individual. So you see, we learn less of the subject, but rather

more on the one who studies it. Your answer could be entirely empirical. Certainly it was back then

before man had any concept of atmosphere or space, as such, the scope of your response would be

refined to the senses. Perhaps the nocturnal colors called to your consciousness as they did

Vincent Van Gogh one starry night. Or perhaps it is precisely the lack of color that struck you.

Your attention might have been alerted to the intensifying effect of global pollution.

The world drowning in artificial light, the clouds fornicating with poisonous smoke.

Certainly Van Gogh had little to no awareness of the earth's rising fever.

Have you gone outside and looked? Look at the stars.

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