Each piece in Reign of Fire is named after a star appearing during a particular season for viewers in the Northern Hemisphere. Balanced on a sickle of stars, it is the crown jewel of spring nights.
Casual inspection shows a single star, but keen vision reveals a second, closer companion.
This false double is complimented by the real double nature of Mizar when observed with a telescope. The rise and fall of light has sometimes been imagined as a baleful winking eye watching the Earth. This corresponds well with the fears of the very young, whose imagination may turn an ordinary shadow into into a nightmarish other. One of the hottest of stars, it symbolizes the burning peak of the the first stage of our lives. The first of the bright stars of the northern summer, this star once formed the top of Orpheus' harp.