Somebody may correct me if I’m wrong, but it helps that the stars that go supernovae have comparatively short life spans, so there have been several more “generations” of them. If I recall, the life span of those stars is measured in the millions of years, versus our sun which is projected to have a 10 billion total life span (and is about 4.5 billion years into it).

Edit: and versus the estimated ~14 billion year age of the universe.

It’s “leviosA,” not “leviOsa”

I read it a few months back. If I recall, the setup is that it is dark in the house at the time, lights went out so they only have candles I think, making it a little easier to pass off the cover up. Plus, that character is like the 5th (?) to die so can say that those remaining were pretty accepting that he’d be dead.

That said, when I was reading it, I was immediately suspicious of that death because of the way it was described. I didn’t quite get to the conclusion, but thought it was odd.

Well I’m a writer so that might be for me then lol

Any good recommendations on non-fiction books covering daily life in the late Middle Ages?

My SO asked for a non-fiction book dealing with the topic after being disappointed that another book she read really only dealt with war and the nobility. She would be interested in the nitty gritty details and logistics. For example, she expressed a lot of interest in a throw away line about how complicated the hierarchies of serfdom and different sub-groups actually were, and was disappointed it was basically treated in just a sentence. I realize it’s a long period of time, so something focusing on life after 1000 AD would be best.