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Otulissa couldn't believe her eyes. One minute she, along with a lot of owls of the Great Tree, were sitting staring at the portal, the next the band had popped out of it. They stared at each-other for a second, then everyone broke into cheers. There were a lot of hugs and talks. Everyone had been so worried, the band had been gone for a little over half the year. They promised to tell the others what had happened on their journey later.
Everyone was happy except Elna. No one had even noticed her. She knew she shouldn't be so unhappy, they had been gone a long time and needed to catch up. But she had hoped. . . Just then Twilight noticed the tears in her eyes. "Elna, come over here." She smiled again and jumped over to him and the two great grays he was with. "Elna, this is Tevis and Cletus. They're my brothers. Guys, this is Elna. I met her on our little journey."
Meanwhile Soren was with Pelli again. "Soren, you were gone half the year. You said this wouldn't take long." She joked.
"Trust me, I had no intention of being gone half the year." He laughed.
"But that's just it. " Pelli had become serious. "You never know how long something is going to take. I wanted to go with you, but you stopped me."
"What are you getting at?" if he was honest, Soren would say he thought he already knew.
"Next time, let me come with you."
Soren nodded. "I will."
Otulissa ran up to him. "Soren! While you were gone, my owlets hatched."
"They did? That's great!"
Otulissa nodded, smiling. "Cleve and I have two daughters and two sons."
Soren smiled. "It seems we have a lot of catching up to do. And we can't do it underground. Everyone!" he called to the owls in the tunnel. "To the dinning hollow!" The owls all started to fly out of the tunnel. They were making so much noise Soren almost didn't hear the important thing until it was too late. The cave it-self was making noise. "The tunnel's going to collapse!"
There were a lot of exclamations at this, but Elna's "WHAT?" rang out the loudest. Rocks started to fall. All the owls flew as fast as they could toward the exit. They all made it out. Soren turned around. There was no way anyone was getting back in there. "NOO!" Elna cried out. "My home! I can't go back now!" she was really crying now. Most of the owls left. They didn't know what to tell her. Especially since most of them barely knew her. But Twilight stayed with her. He didn't say anything, just stayed. It was best that way.
(Still making a sequel. Just making that clear.)