Chapter 97: Chapter 95: We Touch Upon the Edge of The Waters

What do the stars know?

It may seem like an absurd, esoteric question. But that is because you are basing yourself in the gritty, solid logic of rationality. In a time before the church, in a time before cities and towns, in a time before fire, man worshiped the sky.

The people of that long distant world made offerings to the sun and they danced in the moonlight and they laid eyes upon the endless number of stars that fill the sky, staying keenly aware that they were staring down onto them as would a hungry spider down from its web.

However, that age is now long since passed and we find ourselves in an era of reason and technology. The gods are said to have come and gone and we are left now by ourselves in this garden of paradise.

But the sun is still in the sky.

The moon still floats through the night.

And the stars are still watching us, as they have always been doing. You may think that they are simply a romantic sight. But, in much the same way as we romanticize the howl of a wolf in the dead of the night — It will stop being romantic when you are alone with it in the darkness.

The question is not why the stars are watching us, the question is what they’re waiting for. They are a wolf that has already howled. The strike is prepared, yet it never seems to come.

And so, we as a people live in a constant tension, that must lead us to ask one thing.

- What do the stars know?

Why are they so afraid, these ancient, cosmic deities of the old-world, that they haven't moved yet? What terror could possibly be down here on our world that keeps them at bay?