Srtym

She typed the letters slowly, not as a word, but as a path . She placed her finger on S, then moved to R (up and right), then to T (up and left), then to Y (up and right), then to M (down and left). She traced the motion.

"What language uses that?" Leo asked.

The screen flickered. And in the blackness of space, at the coordinates of the non-existent "M," a star winked into being where no star had ever been before. She typed the letters slowly, not as a word, but as a path

It wasn't a spiral. It was a map.