The next act encompasses in more focused detail the narrator's look backwards down the path, beginning at their shared home in the present day, where the dissociation introduced in act one as almost entirely a self-inclosed thing trickles outward and troubles the comfort outlined in the last section of the song preceding it. He examines his own life through imagined self-portraits, in various sequences of time (fractions of days first, then weeks, months, years), and through multiple specific events.
"Starlight reaches for a kind of euphoric melancholy-a guiding light in all of my music. It’s shaped by my love of the melancholic songwriting traditions of Europe from composers like Monteverdi and John Dowland, all the way to 90s Eurodance and the uplifting trance of the 2000s-artists like Gigi D'Agostino and Alice Deejay."
As for the meaning behind the EP's first single "Knight's Oath," frontman Dylan Walker reflected: "Absolute dedication to your charge, be it a person you love or held tenet, and the ignominy that comes with a sudden defeat."