Lina's defeat wasn't sweet. Lina regrets that she had let herself get caught. When she will tell Nyra, she will expect some sort of punishment. Her failure has caused Lydea to live and yet she has followed orders exactly. Lina makes the long flight to Compound to report to Nyra what has happened. She knows that Nyra will be pissed off and she tries to think of what she will do to her for letting Lydea live. Lina thinks she should have impaled her with her claws and should have decapitated something, but it is too late. She arrives and bows before Nyra who is admiring herself in the mirror and having Elanore place a necklace on her.

"You may go." Nyra says to Elanore, who bows and walks away

"Mother, I have some news." Lina says with a nervous smile

"What is it?" Nyra asks as she admires her wings to see if they are dirty

Lina sighs and replies "Lydea has been beaten…" before a pause

"Continue." Nyra encourages as she turns around

Lina sighs again and she is getting scared and says "She survived, ok. Then they found out it was me who did it so they… um like exiled me."

Nyra's eyes glare at her as fury is so large and raging; she gets a stick and beats Lina. In Nyra's eyes, the beating is summing up all her failures and being exiled. Lina is struck with violent blows over and over, blood coming from her beak as she is rapidity struck again and again.

"Mother, why are you here as a Pure One?" Lina asks between strikes by the stick across her face

Nyra stops and lowers the stick to the floor as she lands. She places down the stick as Lina is handed a cloth that she wipes the blood off onto from Elanore, who is slightly petrified from seeing what her pure anger can really do. Nyra walks over to the window and looks over the kingdom as Lina cautiously comes behind her.

"I was taken in and taught the Pure One way, Lina. I know that my enemies are small and weak against me and the might of the Pure Ones. If I gave up and became as clueless and without any dignity whatsoever, like you are, I would never be the leader I am today when I were chosen out of all the rest." Nyra answers

"You should of left." Lina adds "Maybe then you would have been better as a housewife than a woman who clearly would cheat on her husband if she could."

"How dare you say that about me!" Nyra screams as she picks up the stick and beats her again "Now, you have failed me. You are testing the Pure One way as one of the lower species." Nyra says as she still has the stick in her talons from the blow she just delivered

"You can't even take care of your own dirty work!" Lina blurts out "You make me do all the work while you sit there and do nothing."

"You have failed, admit it!" Nyra yells back at her

"No! You failed!" Lina yells in answer "You have failed in being a general and a wife as you clearly don't give a damn about me or anyone else in that matter."

"I am more of a Pure One than you and you are just weak." Nyra screams as she hits her again "I'll Show you. Lydea had just woken up and is still recovering from the number that you inflicted on her. In other words, you were supposed to kill her." She screams again as she hits Lina again

"So, you expect me to do something that you could do yourself. You are lazy as." She says, prompting another hit from Nyra

"I bet she will try and take what is rightfully hers. When that time comes, I will show you my full wrath, Lina. I will prove to your stupid, ignorant and pointless mind that i am the Pure One General after all!" Nyra announces as she picks up the stick and strikes her over and over.

After a while, Nyra wears herself out and stops as Lina is covered in blood and she is groaning in pain. Elanore comes in and hands Nyra her cure-all when it comes to all the anger and emotions she suppress inside of her. She hands her some wine and she drinks it. Lina struggles to get up and she wipes the blood away.

"What do i do now? I want to make it up to you." Lina asks

"Fine then, I will send you on a mission. Take some Pure Ones and go kill Alina, Lydea's Adoptive Mother." Nyra orders

"As you wish, mother." Lina replies

Lina flies off and takes with her a small army. Back at Compound, Nyra watches her leave with Elanore and she orders for all the blood and fathers to be cleaned up as she inspects the troops.

Lina makes her long journey to Kuneer, as that is where Alina is based on her undercover mission for the OWER. Alina is tracking the movements of bats and of Pure Ones in the area that could be kidnapping owlets. Lina and her Pure Ones look all around the sandy, arid area of rock and sand to find her watching movement in the desert canyons.

Lina and her brethren end up ambushing her. A battle commences and Alina is outnumbered and without her allies that are also watching the canyons and violently killing her. Lina pins her and delivers the fatal blow, over and over. In the aftermath, Alina's mask is the only thing remaining beside a lifeless owl bathed in its own blood.

When Nyra is told of this, when Lina returns, she immediately writes a scroll to Metalbeak and then a diary entry she locks away with the others. She then places on her helmet and will personally deliver it to The Beaks. Elanore follows with the Pure One Guards as she flies alongside Nyra.

Nyra's diary entry

I know now that Lydea Schana will be outraged about this. Just if I don't want to toy with her and make sure she dies so the North will still be ours. If she decides to fight me, I will be waiting for the little pest to finally gain the courage to fight me. She is a strong opponent and will make the best enemy for me to kill.

Lina may have failed to kill her, but since she has killed the adoptive mother that cared for the wretch for years and years. I know that she will come here with the guardians and will try to resort to measures as it will be another battle in the making. Just if this war hasn't intensified since the days of old.

Then finally, we can take down the Guardians as it is the one thing standing in our way. Alas, we will only have chance to kill my long time enemy, Barran and her putrid allies. That still leaves Josh to be the king. If we succeed, i will personally go and kill Josh and will take his kingdom by force. Then finally, we will be unstoppable in the fight for the kingdoms.

Two days later in Ga'Hoole, Lydea had been allowed to stay with Josh while she is recovering. Barran said she was allowed and Boron couldn't care less what happens, just as long as Lydea is happy. Lydea is able to glide and flap, but she is still too weak to fly. Josh and Lydea find other ways to have fun.

In the evening, Barran gets a scroll when she is in the temporary Moon Master Class classroom looking for some of the homework she accidentally left behind. She reads the grim news and she places her wing over her mouth as she is shocked. Later, she asks Ezylryb to break some grim news to Lydea, since he knows her fairly well. He tells her that she will lose all her self-strength and that Lydea will not be able to accept such an event happening.

Barran replies with "I'm afraid that she will have to accept the truth. The youngling better accept that with her identity come some things that are unspeakable, but happen."

Ezylryb arrives to see Lydea while they are studying and having a laugh. Josh leaves the room as he knows to let them talk in private. He anyway needs to get something to eat, seeing as it is after lunch and he has been studying for four hours.

"Princess Lydea. There is some news." Ezylryb says to attract her attention from elsewhere

"Please, Ezylryb, I have known you for ages and i don't think that you can call me "Princess" because of this. Call me Lydea." Lydea clarifies

"You are either way taking the truth very well. Before i tell the news to you, I apologise for dropping the secret now. None of us knew when to tell you. I thought to let you know when it is time and when you will understand all this." Ezylryb adds

"What is it that you want to tell me?" Lydea asks

"Some news has come out of Kuneer yesterday. Barran was to tell you this, but she doesn't know what to say. She was quaking at the idea of what happened. I'm afraid that your mother, Alina, has been murdered and the most probable cause is Pure Ones." Ezylryb sadly announces as he sighs

"No... That can't... Oh Glaux... She Couldn't...! She Wouldn't...!" Lydea speechlessly tries to say

Josh enters the room and sees the sadness in Lydea's eyes. He goes up to her and makes her look up at him.

"Lydea, what is going on?" Josh asks

"My mother, Alina, is dead, Josh. Pure Ones killed her only because of my identity." Lydea announces as a tear falls from her eye

"It's ok, don't cry." Josh says as he holds her close, however she continues to cry.