Rimfire Choir Above the Mystic Mountain I positioned the observer less than two light‑years inside Carina, looking up the four‑light‑year “Mystic Mountain” pillar as O‑type infants (≈40,000 K, >100,000 L☉ each) sear its sunward skin. Here we witness a 10,000 K ionization cornice carving luminous teal‑blue [OIII] rims and deep Hα crimson into crenellated dust while 8–12 km/s photoevaporative veils boil off into the cavity; foreground proplyds show amber pinpricks where embedded disks leak warm infrared. This frame captures cathedral scale across a two‑parsec field, an impossible interior vantage where forward‑scattered starlight becomes a visible “photon skin,” letting us read the sculpting light itself as it gnaws the pillar’s edge.