Underneath the piers and boardwalks, Terra Aquinos' civilisation sat upon rocky crags and small pebbled beaches. Leila would find this out, and use it to her whim, sitting on the pebbles below the boards. Out of sight from the uninquisitive, but still within reach. Leila sat with her knees against her chest, and her hands wrapped around her legs. She gazed at the water and silently wept. The tears quietly, yet mercilessly, streaming down her face. She thought to herself about everything on this Terra. The rejection, the comparison, the jealousy, all culminating to Leila's pursuit of an accursed bracelet. One that she never even had the chance to properly test, because Ravess spotted it. Leila looked back with regret, and anger, and frustration. All she had worked towards, for nought. She had been dropped from the lineup, and her part would be hybridised and adapted for Ravess alone. So far as she was concerned, Leila was stranded, with her skills vastly under par compared to the locals.

'Hey, what are you doing down there?' A brawnish voice called down to her from the boardwalk above. Leila lifted her head a few inches trying to process the words spoken to her, a few seconds later, she lifted her head completely, seeing Snipe looking down at her with a degree of annoyance. 'Wait, you're one of Ravess' gleeps. Did she chew you out, too?'

'...worse than that' Leila weakly replied.

'That's my sister for you' Snipe chuckled mockingly. 'So what did you do? Give her some lip?'

Leila dropped her head as she quietly lifted her wrist up, revealing the gemstone band around her wrist, glistening in the sunlight. 'Ohh' Snipe cautiously replied. 'That sucks for you'

'Yeah. What's worse is that I never got to properly try it out' Leila mumbled. Snipe chuckled a little more at Leila, but seemingly not making fun of her.

'Yeah. Ravess really doesn't want a repeat of last time' He reminised.

His gaze went elsewhere for a second, but when he snapped out of it, he looked at Leila, who stared back in confusion. 'What? She never told you? Well what are you sat there for‽ This is your chance to get back in that fancy pants club of yours!' Snipe encouraged, reaching down his hand for Leila to grab. She stared for a second, and curled a smile. She then grabbed his arm, and immediately got lifted back on the pier. 'There. Now don't say I don't do anything nice. I just don't do a lot of things nice, okay?' Snipe quietly asked. Leila nodded and motioned a zip along her lips before turning and sprinting back up the boardwalk, toward the theatre.

With Leila sent on her way, Snipe looked around him to see if anyone was watching, and once he was sure he was unnoticed, he slipped into the gap that Leila was once sat in, disappearing from view.

Leila's breath slowly ran out as she neared the theatre. Her heart racing. She had been given hope for a second chance, but was not told how to take it. She finally stopped so she could draw in air. As the fresh oxygen entered her lungs, so too did the plan. Once brought back to a functioning state, Leila walked to the theatre, and looked either side of it, seeing a small walkway around the side. Walking through, she found a fire exit at the rear of the venue. To her surprise, and to her benefit, it was propped open with a cinder block. Seizing the opportunity, Leila stepped through the threshold, and bumped into Ravess. Leila's eyes widened, and her words left her mind.

'What do you want now?' Ravess asked, annoyed, and nearly angry.

'I... I just want to talk' Leila replied, feeling a lump in her throat.

'There's nothing to talk about. You've ignored my instruction by finding and wearing that... thing. You're still wearing it, too' Ravess dismissed, turning around and starting to walk away.

'Snipe told me there was a last time that this surfaced' Hearing Leila say this stopped Ravess in her tracks. 'And that you were there when it did' Leila added. Ravess dropped her head. 'So please, tell me what happened'

Ravess felt a pain inside of her. An empty ache she had not felt for such a long time. It stopped her from speaking for a moment. Finally drawing her breath together, she stood tall and turned to Leila. 'Alright. I'll tell you, but I know for a fact you won't like what I have to say'

Ravess barged past Leila and walked to the main backstage area. She grabbed a pair of chairs and slid them across the room, facing each other. Taking a seat in one, she motioned to the other chair, letring Leila sit down too.