The Star of Hope

 Dear Reader,

If you are reading the Clear Recital: CDV, you will find an accounting of how the Bright Mother moves through creation cloaked in the shadows of the second night. Above her is a star that grows brighter as she draws closer to her destination, the Cave of the World. This star is the star of Hope. It bespeaks the promise of the Holy Daughter to permanently fix reunion with the Bright Mother.

This causes all the children of Déa to remember themselves and put aside their striving against each other and to journey to the Cave of the world, but one. The Dark Queen weeps and laments how she has defiled herself and how unworthy she feels to approach the Bright Mother for forgiveness. Torn between her frenzied rage and her deep grief, the Dark Queen descends farther into madness and deeper into the pit of Khear in an attempt to flee the gentle light of the star of Hope. But, even into the eternal blackness of the pit of Khear, the light of the star of Hope shines. For where does hope shine brightest but in the places of despair and grief.