RAE'S CABIN – NIGHT
Rae unlocks the door, ushering Elara inside. Nyra slips in silently behind them. Elara looks around—wide-eyed. Every item is a new mystery.
ELARA:Is this your castle?
RAE: (surprised) Sure. It's got a throne and everything—bathroom's down the hall.
Elara cautiously pokes at a lamp, then yelps when it turns on.
ELARA:By the gods—! It glows without fire?she asked with a questing look
Welcome to electricity says Rae
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KITCHEN – MOMENTS LATER
Elara sits stiffly at Rae's tiny table while Rae pops bread into a toaster. Elara watches with the intensity of a general at war.
ELARA:What sorcery is this box?
RAE (sighs):It's toast machine You're getting a toast bread. Calm your crown, she made a gesture with her hands while bowing her head
ELARA:is the bread... transmuted by light?
NYRA: (from the windowsill)
I like her. She's got drama. Rae sigh!, she haven't had another around so it felt a little awkward for her
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LIVING ROOM – LATER
Elara points her sword at the TV, now showing a cooking show she's so curious a how the TV works. Rae walks in to pick a book
ELARA:That woman is inside the box!
RAE:That's not a box, it's a screen. And that woman makes better soup than I ever will, so chill. Why do u think everything is a box?
She picks the remote and changes the channel. Elara gasps as the picture shifts.
ELARA:You control it with runes! Your world is so cool
RAE:Buttons. They're buttons it's just a controller for the television
Rae sits with a mug of tea while Elara paces like she's about to storm into a battlefield.
ELARA:Your world is loud. There are no stars. No energy lines. The magic here—it's so buried...
RAE:Yeah. We bury a lot of things here Rea said coldly as she slips her tea
Elara softens her pacing and sits across from her.You truly don't know what you are, do you?
Rae flinches. Nyra jumps onto her lap like a shield.
RAE:well I know I hear voices, feel things I can't explain, and now there's a sword girl in my living room calling my television a box So no. Not really.
Silent filled the earth. Elara pulls the High Priest's necklace from a pouch and places it on the table. Rae's fingers twitches the moment she saw the necklace
It looked somehow familiar
Like she's seen and touched it before
ELARA:This belonged to your father.
RAE (quietly):I don't remember having a father.
ELARA:You did. And you have to remember because he definitely gave you his powers 4 a reason sigh! I'm sure of it
I just need you to remember your true self
Se says while looking Rae in the eye
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