Chapter 23: Breaking free

We are upon the high mountains, almost toward the Northern Kingdom. I can't believe this is the third time we have fallen victim to Pure Ones. How could we not see them or even know where they were? I did have a strange feeling in my gizzard, but i didn't know what it was, it couldn't off been the snow since it is spring. Why didn't i act when i felt this feeling? I would of told Josh, but i didn't know what it was until the net sprung on us.

This is where it will end? I don't want to die; I would never want to die. Lina will take me to Nyra and I know that she will execute me just as she will get the location of the mirror. I hear Josh tapping on his cage and we look. He then uses sign language to tell us to use the rope that they had errantly forgot to take off Shard, to pull the cage doors off. I don't know why Shard was carrying rope in the first place, but it is going to come in handy. Shard passes the rope to Parzival, then to Bryony, and then to me, then i give it to Josh. We all pull at it as the cage doors bend. We keep at it and then finally they burst off. The Pure Ones don't notice until we are less than 400cms away and they begin to chase us.

Lina furiously leads her brethren while we beat our wings as fast as we can to escape. Every wing beat, my wings grow weary as i haven't run away like this for ages. Bryony then flies behind me and she puts lots and lots of brown ochre powder at them and they fall back as the powder envelops them and cries of pain are heard. It is very obvious that they got it in their eyes, because the screams of pain are heard from far away as we escape. We fly into the trees when Shard yells "Guardians!" We fall into nearby trees as they pass. That is very peculiar since they left first. We must have been taking a shortcut or something. It is when, Shard begins his yelling.

"They are going to attack! We are going to be in a warzone!" Shard yells

"Remember what I said! I said "We are getting answers, at any cost". Even if our lives are on the line, we will get answers. We will find the mirror and we will get rid of the Pure Ones from Lydea's Kingdom! No exceptions." Josh yells back as we are in different trees

"Don't fight! I want to take my kingdom back, but violence isn't the answer! I need to get my kingdom back, for my family!" I announce

"Let's go already!" Bryony yells

We fly off into the distance as the guardians are crossing the mountain range toward the Northern Kingdom, my home. I notice the beauty of the mountains and i think i remember them from somewhere. I feel like that i have been here before. This place is so familiar that my mind is having visions of my past. I remember my earliest memories when Ezylrib as taking my away from the North as it had fallen into Pure One control. I was only a little owlet and i never would have thought I'd remember anything like that. It is time to confront my fears, however many i have for now