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The moon set early that night, and for the first time upon Lucifer, Perscors searched the stars. Sitting upon the highest hill that he could find, overlooking a steep valley, he sensed that his westward way must soon end and that his solitude would not prevail much longer. The moon of Lucifer, he had realized earlier, was as much brighter than the moon of earth as the sun of Lucifer was more pallid than the earthly one. Now, unfamiliar as he found the patterns of glitter in the starry night to be, Perscors was startled to behold, in the northwest quarter of the sky, a pale swath of what seemed a version of the Milky Way.
He remembered reading somewhere of a Northern tribe that called the Milky Way "the tracks of God. " Was this frail zone of light like that other, a path for the Demiurge? Was the heart of the Milky Way yet one more whirlpool of destruction?