The boy looked up at the sky, and the stars in the night sky. Memories flooded back of days when he would spend hours with his mother on the terrace as she told him all about the tiny bright dots in the night sky.“That is the great bear.” his mother said, tracing a jagged line in the sky.“That does not look like a bear,” he protested.His mother laughed. “I knew you would say that,” she said, “that is why I came prepared.”She opened her office bag and pulled out a plastic sheet with ‘Big Bear’ written on it. I had the image of a bear, and she held the sheet against the night sky. The stars aligned neatly against the points on the sheet.“It looks like a curved dagger to me,” the boy said, hoping to put up a fight. His mother had laughed, and he laughed with her.The sound… Stars in the night sky