Daelon was with her wife and her daughter Shaya sitting beside him, he looked around and he realized he was in Stormwind. "Love? Shaya?" He asked confusingly.
"Hi Dear, we missed you" His wife replied. "I missed you Daddy" Shaya added.
He looked at her daughter with teary eyes and knelt before her, "Oh Shaya, I missed you so much." He cried and hugged both his wife and daughter.
"I know you missed us dear, but this isn't real." His wife said. "Yup daddy, this isn't real." Shaya said also.
"W-what?" asked a confused Daelon as he looked up at them.
Suddenly the area surrounding them turned from a mighty city if Stormwind to a wrecked caravan in a lush forest with mangled bodies, his wife and daughter broke away from her and approached a nearby cross. Daelon sought to give chase but he couldn't move. "Love, Shaya? What are you doing?!" He shouted.
The two still approached the cross and as they near it, two orcs appeared with a hammer and a nail, his wife looked back at him. "You failed us dear." She stated. "I hate you Daddy! You let us die here!" Shouted Shaya.
"W-what?" He shockingly asked.
The two then was lifted by the orcs and place their hands the left and the right mantle of the cross and began to place the nail, Daelon was trying to free himself but he felt like he was chained in a tree, trying desperately to save his wife and daughter.
Daelon watched in horror as he hears the screams of his wife and daughter, their hands pierced by the nail that was hammered by the orcs.
"Please, no more!" He pleaded. But his pleads fell on deaf ears as the orcs still continue hammering the nail to their hands.
"This is the price you have to give of failing them." One of the orcs said.
Daelon just looked down at the ground, trying to look away at the sight and tries to cover his ears. Finally the screams stopped.
"Dear, look at us." His wife said with a cold voice.
Daelon looked at both of them and saw their eyes staring blankly at them, their eyes lifeless but their mouths was still moving and voices still coming out from their breath, as he watched them move again, lifting their heads up looking at him.
"This is your failure" They both said.
"No, My love, Shaya! I'm Sorry!" He cried out.
X
Daelon was awakened by a slight shake on his body and as he opened his eyes, two green orbs were staring down at him, he sit up with hands on his knees as he look at her.
Looking up at the sunrise, he saw that it was just early in the morning. "Why are you up so early?" he asked.
Hyana did not reply as she was just still staring at him with concern with hands on her chest.
"You talked in your sleep…. I just thought it's time for you to wake up as…. It sounded like you were in a lot of pain your sleep…. Sorry" Hyana stated, still looking at him with concern.
"Well, your right about waking me up, well thanks for caring Hyana." He replied, and Hyana replied back with a smile on her face.
"Well, I think it's time for us to pack up don't you think?" He said while looking at the surroundings.
"Yes, I think we should start to pack up, the sooner we start the sooner we finished." She said happily.
They packed u the camp, it wasn't long as they easily finished packing up in a quarter of an hour as they put all their belongings in a bag. Well the only thing they have though is a bowl, a pot and a tent and dried fish that Hyana caught earlier the other day, so it was light for Daelon to carry.
"Alright let's go Hyana" Daelon remarked.
"Okay." She replied.
They were walking at the vale towards an inn near booty bay as Daelon stated, but Hyana was looking around at her surroundings and then looked at Daelon with a questioning glare.
"How long is our walk to the inn?" Hyana asked.
"About, for days of walk maybe." He replied casually.
"Four Days?!" She shouted at him in disbelief.
Daelon, look at her annoyed face and smiled." Well, the inn is not exactly "near" Booty bay, as it resides east of it in a neutral village." He explained.
"Well at least we got the joy on having the joy of walking in it, I like some good adventure." She happily stated.
Silence engulfs them after the conversation the entire day as they walked. During the walk, Hyana was humming a tone and Daelon was constantly annoyed by it, but to his annoyance, he did not let her stop as he doesn't want to make a bad remark to her, making her losing her trust of him, when it was almost nearing dusk they approach at a swampy area, thinking that it was just a shallow walk, they confidently enter the swamp and hopes that they can find shelter to make camp there. When they walk forward, they didn't realize the swamp was a long walk till it was too late.
"Damn it!" Daelon exclaimed angrily.
"Now there's no going back?" Hyana asked.
"Yes, there's no going back." He replied with a slightly annoyed tone.
Because of the swamp's sorrowful area, Hyana tries to break the silence between them and starts asking questions, Daelon was answering them casually and was surprisingly enjoyed by her questions, enjoying her company to say the least in this light forsaken swamp. Till a one particular question got his brow raising.
"So Dael, can I call you Dael? Because I think Daelon sounds like a demons name." She chuckled as she jokingly asked.
"Yeah go ahead." He replied, also chuckling about her question.
Hyana took a deep breath and asked.
"So about your dream, I heard one particular name." She said.
"Hmm? Oh and what was it's name?" He asked, raising his brow till it was near tearing.
"Shaya." Hyana said, taking a deep breath.
Daelon stopped for a moment in her remark and then resumes walking, making Hyana regret about her questions.
"Now let us not get in to that kind of border Hyana." He stated.
"Sorry." She said, looking down at her moving feet.
"If you're so ever curious, all I can say is that she is my daughter and I love her." He said with a slight sadness in his tone.
"So where is she now then?" She asked again.
"I already told you Hyana." He said, making her remember about the border.
"Sorry." She replied with shame.
"You know, you are just like her, ever so curious on the business of other people and also no need to apologize girl." Patting her head, making her smile in the process.
They walked again in silence, not knowing what the time is but as Daelon look up at the moon, it was clear that it was now night fall, having still to be in the swamp, there was no suitable shelter they can find in the area as their force to walk it out from there. They still walked and walked and walked till it was late at night, Hyana who was the weaker person was starting to get drowsy, and keeps yawning in their journey as her elf eyes starting to get heavy.
"I'm very tired." She said, tugging the armour strap of Daelon, making him look at her.
"Alright." He said, still energetic and with no signs of drowsiness.
Daelon takes of the strap of his bag and lets Hyana carry it.
"Huh? Why am I the one carrying it?" asked a confused and sleepy Hyana.
"I'm giving you a piggy back ride so that you can sleep in my back throughout the night." He said, kneeling in front of her.
Hyana give a light smile as she picked up the bag, surprisingly light she stated and climbs to Daelon's back with her arms on his neck, her chest at his back and her legs around his hips. Daelon rise up and walks forward.
"How are you feeling?" He asked, looking back at her.
"Great." She replied, letting out a yawn.
Daelon walks forward, not wanting to risk camping at night as he knows that basilisk and saber panthers are lurking out here in this kind of night, he is though confident that he can repel a 5-6 number pack attack from them, he briefly glance at Hyana, making her stare back at him.
"Dael, why?" She asked in a soft tone.
"Why what Hyana?" replied a confused Daelon.
"Why did you have this kind of hospitality to me? I am a Blood elf, making me officially a Horde citizen, with all the tension between the Alliance and the Horde, we are basically enemies." She added.
"You are not my enemy Hyana, you're just an innocent little girl, now relax and get some sleep okay?" Daelon answered.
Hyana nodded and placed her head on the back of his neck and closed her eyes, making Daelon slightly lean his body forward so that he can make Hyana comfortable in her sleep, he continued walking even though this late at night as he is certain that they will be killed in their sleep if he tries to camp in the swampy area because of the predators lurking round. He looks around, seeing the night humming with activity, crows flying above them and yellow eyes looking at them in the shadow. He ignored it and continued forward.
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"You are nothing but trouble in this orphanage girl!" a female adult Blood elf shouted.
"I'm sorry!" replied a 10 year old Hyana.
"No more with your apology you brat!" She stated angrily.
She drag Hyana by her hair in the corner, making her tears flow down at her cheeks, Hyana reach up to her silver white hair, trying to make the pain ease but her actions just made the woman pull much more force to her hair.
"It hurts! Please I'm sorry!" Hyana cried out, but her pleas fell on deaf ears.
"You will know more to this by not completing your chores you brat!" She shouted, pulling a wooden stick from a drawer and swings it at Hyana with strong force, making Hyana cower before her.
Each swing Hyana take makes her skin purple, she cried out trying to make her stop, but the woman did not listen as she continuously hammered away at Hyana. Hyana just stayed in the corner, her head on her knees and her arms over her head as she tries desperately block the swings the woman gives on her. What feels like an eternity of pain to her has finally stopped as the woman was finally tired, but Hyana just stayed at the corner crying, not wanting to do anything rash that might resume the swinging.
Hyana then noticed that her surroundings began to shake, but she did nothing as her surroundings turned absolutely pitch black, and then She finds herself at the back of Daelon, carrying her and she noticed that it was already morning and they were out from the swampy vale and into a more open plain forest.
"Dael?" She asked, with a soft voice.
"Oh, you're awake Hyana." Daelon replied with a yawn, clearly tired from walking the entire night.
"I think I can walk myself now." She stated.
Daelon knelt and Hyana climbs of him, she notices Daelon's heavy eyes and proposes to make a short rest at the plain forest, to which Daelon reluctantly agrees as he stated that he can still walk, but Hyana pushed him to which he agreed. Daelon and Hyana camped near a stream, as they place a mat for both of themselves to lay.
"Now, we'll just rest for the time being, we will be resuming our walk in the middle of the day." He said, which to make Hyana nod.
"Okay." Replied Hyana. "Now what are we going to do?" She added.
"You can do anything you want, cook food or something, but I'll just rest my eyes for today." Daelon said, stretching his arms as he laid back on the mat and closed his eyes.
Hyana replied with a hmpf, she gathered small sticks of fire wood and build a fire herself, she too out the dried fish from the bag and sticks it to a stick and cooks it over the fire, she glance at Daelon, making her smile.
"I'm glad he's here."