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The bird skull lies at sandal-clad feet, its delicate orbital bone broken into tiny scattered pieces. Dal looks at it from the other room as she untangles herself from Ro, who glares in the direction of their father.
Ilm
That's enough.
Dal clutches the bird skull as she grits her teeth and jabs an accusatory finger at Ro behind Ilm's back.
Dal
SHE started it!!
Ro
Shut up, ash breather.
Ilm
Ro, for Ybris' sake, you're a Templar initiate.
Would it kill you to act like it?
Ro crosses her arms and stares down at her little sister. Dal blows a raspberry to punctuate her victory.
Dal
PBBTTH!!
Raspberry interrupted, Dal scowls at Ilm's chastising as Ro looks on with a smug smile.
Ilm
And don't think you're off the hook, either.
That's part of your mother's research. You shouldn't even have it.
While the Astral Templar may be the hand of the sylph theocracy, scholars of the Celestial Heritage Conservatory are certainly its voice. Equal parts cleric, educator, and arbiter of the law, scholars are well-respected members of sylph society, asserting established sylph moral principles and providing proper interpretation of new scientific and archaeological discoveries with unwavering vigilance.
