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A hand lifts a bird skull into the air. It has an intricate design on its crown.


Dal [out of view]


Give it back!


Give it back, Ro!


Dal and Ro are bickering over the skull in Ro's hand. She teases Dal, keeping it just out of reach of her younger sister. Dal advances on Ro, her little hand clenched.


Dal


I'll tell dad!


Ro


What are you gonna tell dad?


That we're all a bunch of suneaters, again?


Ro grapples with Dal who stands on her tip-toes, reaching for the skull.


Dal


It's true!


You don't know!


She clambers up onto Ro, both her legs wrapped around her older sister's torso as she continues to fruitlessly swipe.


Ro


I know dad's gonna be pretty fed up... if you keep interrupting his classes... with every little stupid thing mom finds out in th--


Ro clutches Dal around the middle, taunting and waving the skull around Dal's grasping hands.


Dal


They're not stupid!


The tussle ends with Dal pinned under Ro's leg and her arm slightly bent behind her back.


Ro


You're stupid.


Dal


Nuh-uh!


Dal twists out of Ro's hold and kicks her away.


Dal


Just give it BACK!!


Launching herself at a smiling Ro, Dal knocks her backward. The skull is flung from Ro's hand.


Ilm [out of view]


GIRLS!

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Several sylph archaeological expeditions to the lands surrounding Llyri have uncovered evidence that the suneaters and sylph share a common ancestor. Birdbone tools and other artifacts found at ancient sylph sites seem to indicate that, at one time, the two cultures were one. To the average sylph, the idea that they are biologically linked to what they consider to be a ‘lesser’ species—one which rejects Ybris’ promise of a return to the sky, in favour of an Erjbound devotion to the sun—is simply distasteful. To the scholars of the Celestial Heritage Conservatory, however, it is tantamount to heresy. Over time, more than a few important relics that could help determine the truth have gone missing—or, worse, been accidentally destroyed. The Conservatory continues to insist that this is merely coincidental.