Stars in the sky shout and throw themselves at each other, vigorously combating each other's claims for territory. The night is a battleground for bodies of light. You can only hope that these distant battles aren't related by radiation, gravity, proximity, or timing to your own quest on the forest floor. for they are terrible portents, the kind you would rather not believe in.     Hive-Maker believed that someday these lights would swarm into our world, to join the living.