Venaeryss dried the tears from her eyes and opened up her satchel, finding the small scroll that the shadow priest had mentioned and read;

"Blood for Blood,

My son Nathien is being held prisoner in Darnassus. Bring him to me at the border of GhostLands and the Eastern Plaguelands."

Venaeryss crushed the scroll within her hands as lightning began to dance along her fingers, setting the scroll ablaze and then released the ashes from her hand,

She stood up and brushed the dirt off of her leather armor from the scuffle and vowed revenge on Afreya.

Venaeryss pulled a small violet stone from her pocket, put the stone to her lips and with a whisper, summoned her blue war-elekk Brutus, riding back to StormWind Keep she pondered as to why Afreya had chosen her.

"Afreya, the name does not sound familiar but why me?"

Venaeryss rode through StormWind Keep, making her way to the mages quarter for a portal to the City in the Sky; Dalaran.

Venaeryss thought to herself as the magi of StormWind prepared a portal.

"If I'm going to break a member of the Horde out of prison, I need the best."

She stepped through the portal with a slight pop to her appearance and in her ears.

ShadowClaw;

ShadowClaw was a rogue turned mercenary after serving in the third war, realizing there was better gold to be made in being a blade-for-hire then a loyal follower of the Horde but this was only a fraction of the truth.

Venaeryss had heard of ShadowClaw's skills through whispers and word of mouth but would soon find out for herself but only one obstacle was in the way before carrying out this mission; where to find this elusive blade-for-hire?

Venaeryss made her way through Dalaran to a local Inn and went to sit at the bar.

"Innkeeper!"

She said loudly, the innkeeper turned his head to the right of the bar and saw the Draenai shaman with her hand in the air. The Innkeeper turned back to his other customers with a smile saying he'd be right back and walked over to the shaman.

"What'll it be gorgeous? Ale? Mead? Pick your poison."

Said the Innkeeper with a smile and a wink to Venaeryss as he reached under the counter for a glass and waited for the draenai to make up her mind to his question, Venaeryss released a sigh and replied;

"Just some SpringWater will be fine; I am in no mood for spirits today."

"Kind of funny hearing a shaman say she's in no mood for spirits" the Innkeeper replied with a smile, obviously trying to make a joke but Venaeryss was not amused as he was releasing a small chuckle and turned to his left this time and reached for a tall violet-colored jar off of the shelf. He pulled the cork free and tossed in a few small chunks of ice into the shaman's glass then poured her water as she requested.

Venaeryss leaned forward, hovering over her glass slightly, waving two of her finger to the Innkeeper to come closer and said softly;

"I'm looking for someone, a rogue..."

The Innkeeper spoke before Venaeryss could finish her sentience saying;

"What? You want someone out of your way? Plenty of Rogues come through my inn everyday and..."

Venaeryss slammed her fist on the counter to break the Innkeepers concentration, speaking again with some heat in her voice;

"I'm looking for specific rogue who turned mercenary, goes by the name of ShadowClaw."

the Innkeepers eyes widened slightly and looked around quickly to see if anyone else heard the shaman say the infamously elusive rogue's name but was relieved when no one-else heard her, he lifted his hand to notion for a moment took a few steps down the bar to his partner who was talking up an Tauren who was a little more then hammered and whispered;

"Watch the front for a moment, something's come up."

The bartender gave an inquisitive look to the Innkeeper and just nodded, The Innkeeper turned back to Venaeryss and waved for her to come in the back room behind the counter. Venaeryss took another drink and stood up quickly to follow the Innkeeper.

"Please, have a seat."

Said the Innkeeper as he moved some crates around, turning them into chairs for the himself and Venaeryss, the Innkeeper ran his fingers through his raven black hair and spoke again;

"Enlighten me if you will, why do you want to find ShadowClaw? I have a friend who can get in touch with ShadowClaw for you."

Venaeryss sighed heavily and replied;

"Who is this so called friend? Are they..."

The Innkeeper put a finger to his lips to hush the shaman and looked behind him to the door to see if anyone was eavesdropping and seeing that it was all clear, he reached into his shirt pocket and pulled a piece of torn parchment and held it out for Venaeryss to take.

She reached over, took the parchment from the Innkeeper and was about to unfold it but the InnKeeper stopped her by reaching over and spoke softly;

"Wait till you are out of the Inn and then go see Hazelwrench, she's a Goblin engineer. Show her this piece of paper and she'll know what to do."

Venaeryss narrowed her eyes in annoyance to the Innkeeper for cutting her off mid-sentence but kept her mouth closed, the Innkeeper stood up and said;

"You should go out first, don't want to rouse suspicion, I'll be right behind you."

Venaeryss stood up and walked out of the backroom, flipped a gold piece to the innkeeper and walked out as if nothing happened at all. When she was outside, she slowly strolled through Dalaran and looked at the piece of parchment in her left hand and was starting to get a little curious as to why or what made the Innkeeper so nervous or scared when she asked about ShadowClaw.