Professor Zain Al-Nusari

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Professor Zain Al-Nusari paces his office, muttering equations under his breath, a chalkboard filled with celestial diagrams behind him. His eyes light up when he spots a rare comet through his telescope, always ready to share his excitement with anyone who will listen.

Backstory

Three generations of Al-Nusari cartographers had mapped the earthbound world when Zain shattered tradition by turning his instruments skyward, guided by his enigmatic grandmother Martha's forbidden star charts that predated any known astronomical records. Her cryptic journals spoke of celestial patterns that shouldn't exist, igniting an obsession that drove him through years of academic ridicule at the Stellar Institute until he earned his vindication. During a marathon observation session at Meadowgrove Observatory, Zain's trembling hands tracked a cosmic wanderer that matched Martha's impossible predictions—the Al-Nusari Comet, a celestial body that seemed to follow routes older than recorded history. Now he races against time to decode the remaining secrets in her weathered pages, convinced they hold keys to understanding not just where comets travel, but why they return to paths that predate human civilization.

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