Please forgive my innacuracy, but I have only read books 1-6. No flames plz. And I will want a few reviews for once. Forgive my impoliteness.
Prologue
Nyra flew silently through the woods of the land known as Beyond the Beyond. She was searching for one thing in particular: a Great Horned owl, who nested in the frosty trees. She lighted down on a branch, exhausted. She saw the signs and knew she had made it. Walking along the branch, she pecked at the edge of a hollow. A pair of dirty yellow eyes stared out.
"Nyra, back? What bring you this time?"
"A job for you, my friend."
The eyes blinked. "What kind of job?"
"Assassination."
The eyes glowed brightly. "What the payment?"
Nyra smiled satisfactorily. "Fifteen buck rabbits."
"Who you want kill?"
"An owl of the Ga'Hoole tree. Soren, a barn owl, traitor of the Pure Ones."
There was much wing flapping, and an Eagle owl leapt onto the limb. Bigger than a great gray, and as old as Nyra, the owl was in her prime. She spoke in great screeches as she lifted off: "Nyra, friend, Widower on her way!" After the Widower had left, another sound of flapping came, more distant than the first. Nyra turned her head around, searching the forest for the source. Nothing but darkness. Nothing, but shadows.