Clouds

After reviewing many previous reports from light swarms, we have realized that the clouds in the light world are another kind of animal, the mature form of the stable animals. They're strikingly similar to the stinging bubbles in several ways.

 

• The shape and proportions of both are similar to the juvenile and mature stages of stinging bubbles.
• The stable animals (which we should properly call young clouds) move in the currents of passing light just as young bubbles move when the atmosphere around them moves.
• Several swarms observed clouds rising from the tops of the stable animals, much the same way mature bubbles emerge from the anchored juveniles.

It's possible that clouds may be a new kind of stinging bubble, but the great size difference between them makes us doubt that. Besides, the clouds lack the stinging tongues that all bubbles have. The young clouds are also missing the arms that young bubbles have.

 

We will have the light swarms study the clouds, both young and old, to learn more about them. Without the stinging tongues, it's not clear what the clouds eat. They pass across all animals in the upper part of the world without consuming any of them.

 

One possibility is that only the juvenile form eats. Light travelers have been seen going into and out of the tops of young clouds, but so far we have not been able to confirm whether as many travelers leave as enter.