Chapter 4
Soren stepped up to the front of the dining hollow. "Everyone, I'm afraid I have some bad news." Soren called. He hadn't announced loudly, but everyone was so desperate to know what was going on they all turned to him and quieted down right away.
Soren sighed and looked at the floor. Then he lifted his head back up and spoke. "As most of you have already heard, Others have entered our time." Most owls had heard that alright, but considering this was their first confirmation they started talking. Soren raised his wings and spoke louder, quieting them down again. "This island is relatively small! Once the Others find there is nothing here, they should return to their own time."
He looked at the ground again. "Unfortunately, this is where I must bring up the bad news. Claymore was killed by one of the Others. We will mourn him, and for the safety of everyone here, we are going to try to stay in this hollow until the Others leave. Don't give them reason to think there are a lot of us."
"But Soren," A spectacled owl, one who had been in Elna's Other class for the dragon incident, spoke up. "How can we stay here the whole time? We'll need to yarp, and what if we run out of food?"
"You can yarp in here. As for food, they already must know there are other owls on the island," Soren looked at Eva. They had already seen her. "So if we need to some owls can go out. We just don't want to draw too much attention to the tree, and the simplest way to do that is stay here."