Chapter II Act 3

Lyra is pushed into the back of a cart.

Zaius:  The Laws were created not just for us but for all.   They were created not just for our benefit but for yours and Horse-kind as well.  Without the words of the Law Giver there would be no society and No Civilization

Lyra:  (screaming)  HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT AFTER WHAT YOU'VE SEEN?

A gorilla slams the wooden door in her face cutting off her tirade.  Dr Zaius walks up to the door.  Her face stares back at him between iron bars.

Zaius:   Because they are the only thing that separate us from the level of the human.

Lyra:  Have you ever thought that we could help you?

Zaius:  You have..  and, you will continue to.  Just as the Laws have prescribed..

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Lyra dreams of her youth on the outskirts of Ponyville and of her family, her grandmother.  In those days there was a field out behind where she lived.  On some nights she used to go out and see the strange lights.

On some nights she would wander out into the fields with her harp and perform and she would watch the lights dance and play.  

One night she played a song which she had never before heard.   Although it was the nature of the Heartstrings musical gift that allowed for spontaneous composition, this song, she knew, already had a name.  She didn't know what it was - she just played it.

Other times, she saw the light beings.  One was a small creature not much taller than her that walked on her hind legs.  Other times, she saw ones that just floated away.  Once she played for Bon Bon and everyone with them got to witness the lights coming out of the ground and drifting over the fields.  Strangely, it was only Lyra who was able to see spectres of their former human selves.  The other ponies professed to only seeing floating lights.  Everyone knew that they were probably spirits but only Lyra would insist that these souls belonged to a race of creatures from beyond their world.

Sometimes she dreampt of them in a world similar but different from her own.  Some speculated that those fields could be enchanted; others, said they were haunted..

Once she found a stone in a ravine.  It was flat and rounded at one end.  She showed it to her grandmother.   Her grandmother said that she'd seen one before and had once asked the lights about it.  They told her it was used to mark where  they left their dead..