The Stargazing Society, that loosely-tied company of ambitious astronomers dedicated to the distant and enthralling Hours: [[The Apple-of-the-Eye|The Glorious Lie]], [[the Watcher in the Window]], [[The Spark|the Star]]. In the First History, they possessed significant traction in the Land of the Reed-Plains, and were said to have disbanded in the late nineteenth century, after their leader had discovered ‘the bird’s feather-dress’, learning the secrets of flight and travel, and led his congregation to a space above the Earth, closer to the Sun.