Brightstar is already there when he arrives. StarClan, mighty and fabled, his final destination. He's been here is dreams, of course, and Brightstar had been the first to give him a life, the first to hail him as Eaglestar. She looks forbidding, face drawn and odd eyes narrowed into cold shards of enmity; he laid down his life for another- a lesser, in her eyes- and that's a sin she cannot abide. Out of the darkness steps Thornstar, flanked by Hazelstar on his right.
"You did what you were not supposed to do," Brightstar hisses. It's true; he fell in love, fell in too far, in fact, and now he has landed here.
Thornstar hits him across the ribs. Hazelstar rips into his chest. Brightstar cuffs him over the head, blow after blow, and so his atonement begins.