Liam and Alec stayed with the girls in the lake water and Liam took this opportunity to ask Onyx what had happened to make Tal ended up falling asleep in his arms from exhaustion: "What happened to make Tal so exhausted?"
Onyx who had leaned Tal against him and was stroking his hair replied: "Plunging people into a dreamless sleep was not difficult for him, but since this young thunderbird was killed, he had to implant to everyone present at the scene false memories, for the people who witnessed the fight they all believe that he was injured by Celia and returned to his family to be taken care off."
Onyx stopped stroking his hair and looked at Liam, he told him: "Having to implant false memories in all of these people made him cough up blood and bleed from his nose, but despite the pain he continued and succeeded to do it, he said that it was the only way to protect the girls."
Liam said to him: "I understand better now, we all owe him one, we won't forget it."