Guardians of Ga'Hoole 14 - Exile

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    TWILIGHT: Great Gray Owl, Strix nebulosa , free flier, orphaned within hours of hatching; Guardian at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    DIGGER: Burrowing Owl, Speotyto cunicularius , from the desert kingdom of Kuneer; lost in desert after attack in which his brother was killed by owls from St. Aegolius; Guardian at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    The Leaders of the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    CORYN: Barn Owl, Tyto alba , the young king of the great tree; son of Nyra, leader of the Pure Ones
    EZYLRYB: Whiskered Screech Owl, Otus trichopsis , Soren’s former mentor, the wise, much-loved, departed ryb at the great Ga’Hoole Tree
    Others at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    OTULISSA: Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis , chief ryb and ryb of Ga’Hoolology and weather chaws; an owl of great learning and prestigious lineage
    MARTIN: Northern Saw-whet Owl, Aegolius acadicus , member of the Chaw of Chaws; a Guardian at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    RUBY: Short-eared Owl, Asio flammeus , member of the Chaw of Chaws; a Guardian at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    EGLANTINE: Barn Owl, Tyto alba , Soren’s younger sister
    MADAME PLONK: Snowy Owl, Nyctea scandiaca , the elegant singer of the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    MRS. PLITHIVER: blind snake, formerly the nest-maid for Soren’s family; now a member of the harp guild at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    OCTAVIA: Kielian snake, nest-maid for many years for Madame Plonk and Ezylryb (also known as BRIGID)
    ELYAN: Great Gray Owl, Strix nebulosa , member of the parliament unwholesomely in thrall to the Ember of Hoole
    DOC FINEBEAK: Snowy Owl, Nyctea scandiaca , famed freelance tracker once in the employ of the Pure Ones
    Characters from the Time of the Legends
    GRANK: Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis , the first collier; friend to young King H’rath and Queen Siv during their youth; first owl to find the ember
    HOOLE: Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis , son of H’rath; retriever of the Ember of Hoole; founder and first king of the great tree
    H’RATH: Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis , king of the N’yrthghar, the frigid region known in later times as the Northern Kingdoms; father of Hoole
    SIV: Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis , queen of H’rath of the N’yrthghar; mother of Hoole.
    KREETH: Female hagsfiend with strong powers of nacht-magen; friend of Ygryk, conjures Lutta into being
    Other Characters
    DUNLEAVY MACHEATH: treacherous dire wolf, once leader of the MacHeath clan in Beyond the Beyond
    GYLLBANE: courageous member of the MacHeath clan of dire wolves; her pup Cody was maimed by clan leader Dunleavy MacHeath
    BESS: Boreal Owl, Aegolius funerus , daughter of Grimble, a guard at St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls; keeper of the Palace of Mists (also known as THE KNOWER)
    BRAITHE: Whiskered Screech Owl, Otus trichopsis , owl from Ambala and a memorizer of books; flew with the Greenowls of Ambala to the great tree on Balefire Night
    Blue Owls
    STRIGA: Blue Snowy Owl, Nyctea scandiaca , a former dragon owl from the Middle Kingdom seeking a more meaningful life (also known as ORLANDO)
    TENGSHU: Blue Long-Eared Owl, Asio otis , qui master and sage of the Middle Kingdom

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THE G UARDIANS OF G A ’H OOLE Book Fifteen
The War of the Ember

    “ A ll right,” Ruby said, taking a step closer to the others. “You’ve studied the charts. You each know your individual flight plan.”
    “Yes,” Fritha answered. “I am to go due east from here into the canyonlands, then circle back west and head for Beyond the Beyond, and head straight out toward the Wolf’s Fang.”
    “And you, Wensel?”
    “Yes ma’am.” Wensel then repeated the details of his route.
    “Excellent!” Bess replied after they had recited their individual flight plans. She accompanied them to the turretopposite the bell tower and watched them take off into the wildness of the storm. She had to wedge herself into one of the stone turret notches to keep from being swept off. The raging wind blew the cascading water of the falls in horizontal sheets across the night. Trees shuddered, the noise of their branches a drumbeat beneath the wind. Flashes of lightning illuminated the undersides of rolling clouds, giving them a harsh metallic glow, and always that odd whining that sliced through the wind’s roar, splitting it like a talon through tender flesh.
    But the three owls were amazing fliers. Bess watched as they lifted off into the teeth of the storm. Catching every favorable draft, they manipulated their wings constantly to