"He fashioned a pen nib from streams of stars and devised symbols for speech and counting.
"He made the stars converge into a river, placing goodness and righteousness upstream, and evil and injustice downstream.
"From then on, all things bore their own marks, and people came to understand good and evil, benefit and harm.
"These were the third and fourth days."
After passing through the picture frame, everyone returned to the theater, and Sunday resumed telling his myth.
Standing puppets appeared along the path, pointing the Astral Express Crew in the right direction.
Following their guidance, everyone reached a room containing another glowing picture frame-another doorway.
With their previous experience, they stepped inside without hesitation.
"This is the second play-Ode to the Foolish Servant."
The new play took them into a new setting. Unlike the deep, empty darkness of the starry sky in the first play, everything here was hazy, like a murky, pale-green ocean. Countless strange plants stretched and climbed upward, forming eerie shadows. Only upon closer inspection did they realize these were the shadows of dancing puppets.
"The story that follows revolves around a struggle for power. The seven great families of tree, grass, flower, bird, beast, fruit, and insect were established in Penacony one after another.
"Peace never truly came to the Exile Land. This history is tangled and far too complex, so please allow me to present it to you as a fable.
"Order in the Exile Land was in utter disarray, with threats lurking both within and beyond its borders. The seven great families appeared united, but in truth, each governed itself, and their conflicts never ceased.
"The first to leave the civil war was the Blackbrin Family. In the 'White Desert' incident orchestrated by the Clover Family, they became history forever.
"The head of