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Chapter 2

It was a hour before the sun set and twixt time came, but they were ready. For a long time, when expected to do missions for the High Tyto and her Pureness they were expected to leave long before other owls awakened and return soon after the other's had gone to their nests.

Only this time they weren't on a mission for a foolish ruler and his mate, or for a even more foolish cause. They weren't going to come back after a week or two, or even a month.

They were leaving. Forever. But they were going to be strong. For each other, for themselves, and most importantly: for their fallen comrade and brother Algie.

It was quickly decided how they would go about it. Khrys, as their strategist, pointed out that it's always those who are nervous, acting out of character, that are caught and dragged back to the High Tyto for punishment. They simply had to act as they always did.

But how on earth were they going to do that? They weren't doing anything that was normal for them!

But act natural was what they had to do. So they lifted off in their usual formation when around the Pure Ones. Khrys took point, Marl falling into her starboard flank. Nerda took to her port side, and Sagax moved in directly behind Khrys, if not a few wing-lengths behind to guide them properly.

Looking properly majestic and mysterious to the daytime guard, They gave a graceful loop around the tree in which their hollow resided, silently saying goodbye to their home. It was only because of the sun's light that the other owls were unable to see Nerda's heartbroken eyes or tell that her flying was ragged and off-course. After that silent memorial, the angled so they flew off towards the beaks, vowing to never return.

They were not stopped.

Flying with gusto, falling back into they relaxed their flight positions, with Marl and Khrys practically next to each other as they planned, Sagax fell back to speak to the uncharacteristically silent Nerda. Nerda may have been their information gather, and she could be silent or even go undercover for months on end, but she was generally hyperactive, and she could be incredibly naïve at times. She and Algie had been close, and when he died, they had all worried over her mental state.

As such, they all kept a close eye on her, and when the option of leaving was put on debate, she did not bother to question it. It made the others sad to see hatred in her otherwise carefree and happy eyes when the Pure Ones were brought up.

As Algie was also close to Sagax, especially since they had been the same type of owl. Algie had, in a way, taken Sagax and Nerda under-wing.

Sagax gently brushed wing feathers with Nerda to get her attention. "Hey," He hooted softly, "Are you gonna be okay?"

Nerda blinked and stared at him for a bit, and it took a little bit of time for the faraway look to leave her eyes, but it did. She gave a small ruffle of her feathers, the flying equivalent of a shrug. "I don't know." She hooted, gazing up at the dwenking moon as though it could tell her why. "It's nice to leave them. I don't want to be anywhere near those murderers!" She screeched suddenly, rage decorating he features, attracting the attention of Marl and Khrys who fell silent and drifted back to join them. "But…" Before their very eyes she seemed to go into herself, appearing to become smaller as she gazed at the only owls she could honestly call family with desperation and pain. "It feels like were leaving him!"

Marl flew back to brush wings lightly with her other side. Khrys stay ahead, but fell back enough for them to know she was listening. He opened his beak and his rather soothing hoot for any type of Tyto filled the air, sonorous and calm. "We aren't leaving him. We are leaving what he knew behind. His wishes were for us to be happy." He paused and every owl their remembered their fallen brother, the happiness and joy he made them feel in times of desolation and depression. "We know the him no other owl knew. We knew the him that liked to goof off and hang by his talons from a branch, how he liked to bait the crows when we flew through the day to get our missions complete, how he had a overlarge affection for looking at his own reflection." Soft, amused churring filled the air. "They have the memory of him being cold and cruel and loyal to a false cause. We have him as him. They can keep the farce we all put up."

Marl's philosophical, but true, words seemed to be exactly what was needed. Nerda brightened considerably, her eyes taking the happy light they all loved her for. Sagax wiggled his tail feathers and gave a happy little hoot. But Khrys' reaction was the largest, with a loud happy cry she began to do the air maneuvers that she and Algie often did together and competed in, dipping and diving, flying back up with a twirl, she began to belt out the ditty that Algie had created and adored to sing:

Here in the light of the moon,

I fly with my wings and my feathers.

Here in the surge of battle,

I fight with my mind and my talons.

But here,

In the depths of my gizzard,

In the depths of my heart,

In the depths of my mind,

I fly with my family,

And all of their might!

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