54: Monoceros
Brick waves his tail at the crowd and adjusts his bow.
"Hello everyone!" he meowed. "Welcome back to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars! Our presenter has... gone missing, so we've brought in a Twoleg to present today's constellation." His tail twitched.
The crowd looks surprised; some cats appear as if they want to flee.
Brick cleared his throat and gestured toward the side of the stage. Awkwardly stooping to the cat-sized stage, a human crawled out from behind the curtains. Brick darted away before he could be crushed.
"Hello there," the human said, waving a hand at the crowd. "I'm Rio. I mean, my name's Emma, but I prefer Rio..." She smiled.
The crowd seems a bit less restless.
"My constellation is called Monoceros, which literally means 'the unicorn' in latin," explained Rio.
She pointed at the projector behind her. "This is what Monoceros looks like. It's the 35th largest constellation, and it's in the second quadrant of the northern hemisphere. It also belongs to the Orion family of constellations."
"It was first marked on a globe in 1612, by a Dutch cartographer. It was really made just to fill up the area between Orion and Hydra... quite the shame, since who doesn't love unicorns?"
Someone in the crowd mutters 'Mike Pence'.
"Mike Pence doesn't like a lot of things, but that's not our topic," Rio said. "But Mike Pence would like this constellation, for it was named after a unicorn because unicorns appear in the Old Testament of the Bible. Fun fact - some stupid German guy called it 'Unicornous' in one of his maps in 1624."
I wonder who wrote this chapter...
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