What could have happened here? I've checked every corner of the level and I'm baffled.
I know there are respawning enemies in level 9. Could it be that I threw the stars into an enemy, failed to kill it, and it then wondered off outside of lvl9 with my stars embedded in it?
I've uploaded my savegame here if anyone wants to have a look
savegame04.sav (250 KB)
https://mega.co.nz/#!iUNSACQI!XlAjQy130 ... Ll8YwG5aWs
I don't want to roll back to an earlier save because I've spent over an hour battling the respawners in level 9 to get through, and then another hour battling them while I was looking for the stars!