snippet from starfall

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In a sudden movement Vibrant slammed his tail on the stone wall, shuddering the floor. Auk jumped, flapping his wings in surprise.

"She can't. She knows you have to leave," Vibrant hissed. "She just wants the Star Weaver's power for herself."

"I'm not sure I actually have powers. Nothing odd has ever happened to me," said Auk. Vibrant's scales clacked together, like talons on rock.

"Being a weaver is innate. And other weavers can sense it. Have you wondered why you were raised outside of the Midnight caves?"

Smoke curled out of Vibrant's nostrils, and Auk could see him blink away tears. He lowered his voice to an barely audible growl.

"They sent away my sister after she hatched. The oracles can sense when someone has magic. And yeah, sure, they lie about weavers being gone but that's just because they're scared of them realizing their power and killing the rest of us."

His tail shuddered violently, rattling and clacking. Auk lied down next to him and rested his head on Vibrant's back, which seemed to soothe him slightly.

"She was barely born. But because she might've had the capacity to hurt someone later, they sent her away."

Auk wrapped his tail around Vibrant's, comforting himself as much as he was comforting his friend. Vibrant's chest heaved, though he still resisted crying.

"Weavers are conscripted into becoming sky seers, I don't know why they got rid of my sister instead of that. But I know you're going to help me find her."