Months passed, during which both sides, dragon and tiger, seemed to have eased up on their offensive engagements, instead focusing on regrouping and creating new battle strategies to defeat each other and end the war once and for all.  Oscura herself had her own plans.  Lumina was vastly improving in her training, making great progress in becoming the most powerful dragon ever.  Oh yes, her eventual ascension to the throne would signify the greatest reign ever in dragon history.  Oscura foresaw this and spent every moment overseeing Lumina’s training as well as her other new ambition… 

The erasure of her daughter’s previous memories, however, had proven to be far more difficult than our queen had anticipated.  Her majesty’s energies had been drained considerably because of it.  Whereas her original goal was solely to recover her daughter, Oscura now turned her attention to Lumina’s captor, the tiger warrior Kilani, and vengeance. 

It was not a secret that Kilani was close to death.  Word had traveled across the land of her condition.  Oscura vowed that she would severely punish and humiliate Kilani by having the warrior’s lifeless body hung high in the kingdom for her crimes.  There would be no mercy for the atrocity.  Having Kilani’s corpse on display for all to see would raise the morale of her people, as well as serve a lesson to her sworn enemies. 

But finding the ailing Kilani proved to be somewhat of an arduous task for our queen.  She spared no resource to discover the whereabouts of her daughter’s kidnapper.  But it appeared all was for naught.  Oscura could not believe that such a pathetic, weak, and incapacitated flea-trap such as Kilani could be so difficult to locate.  Oscura wanted justice.  She wanted revenge.  But revenge would only be met through the help of another…