*Tessa's POV*
Life as a rogue was nothing she had expected it to be. After all the fun and games at local inns and bars she finally set out to find her perfect guild. Her journeys had been long and tiresome but she had become one of a kind. Nobody had ever seen a curly red haired young girl with an attitude like her around Azeroth before.
Anyhow, it was somewhere in Western Plaguelands, where Tessa was with her "rouging". She had been taking all the low money quests because somehow all her gold was spent in bars. This was a beautiful region, a little like Elwynn forest. Wolves, spiders and bears lurked this evergreen place. Tessa had survived on bear meat for weeks now and she was longing for a good pick pocketing victim. And she thought she had found the perfect people.
Sebastian the death knight, Andri the night elf and Lyra the wrapped up infant were walking the shady roads of Western Plaguelands. The baby girl was nicely attached to Andri's back via the linen cloth so he wouldn't have to hold her all the way back to HQ.
"I really don't see why we'd have to keep her alive," Sebastian was persistent on ditching the baby.
"She's just a baby. She's harmless."
"Still one of the Lich. Andri, don't you see? Zacklrina wants you to think this thing is on our side. It won't be a baby forever. When it starts to become a death knight, what lie would we tell her? That I'm the father?"
"It would be better than killing an innocent child!" Andri shot back at him and stopped walking.
"Brother, be smart about this. Your love for the girl has clouded your mind."
The brothers stood in silence.
"Whoever you are, you better come out before we use force," Andri's clear and low voice echoed through the trees.
Tessa's cover was blown. But how? Who were these 2 weird men? She did come out of hiding though. Red hair tied into a braid, hanging from behind.
"Do you have any business with us?" Sebastian asked her.
"I am a lil' outta gold, yeah," she shot back hoping for a couple of coins.
"We don't deal with runaways," Sebastian continued.
"Who ya callin' a runaway, cunt? I'm Tessa Highburg born an' raised in Northshire."
What? Sebastian didn't make the connection as easily.
"Tessa, Tessa of Northshire?" Andri asked, a little bit surprised.
"Eighteen years I practiced sword fightin' 'der," she answered proudly, coming out of the shadows onto the road.
"Then surely you know Zacklrina."
"Zack, ma girl? She alive? Doin' well now, is she? I knew that chick would get it goin'!" she cheered and put her knives back into the pockets.
Sebastian turned to Andri and signaled that they really should get going.
"Well Zack's not doing so well, working for the Lich. But we really got to get going. Are you headed that way?"
"Sure, I can join ya, lads," she joined the group.
"I'm Andri, he's Sebastian. From Knights of Sin," he introduced.
"I see, mates o' Zack I 'spose. I myself like to work on ma own. No messin' around in a guild."
"Rogues are like that," Sebastian coughed with a sense of disrespect towards that class.
"So what's tha deal with tha baby?" she asked.
The brothers walked in silence. Tessa went behind Andri and inspected the baby.
"It's Zack's," Andri finally answered.
"Holy crap! Ya must have been one lucky nelf," she winked and returned to Andri's side.
Andri cleared his throat. "Nelf? Oh and she's not mine."
"A night elf. Ya never really 'eard of it? Guess it's more o' a low class thing."
"I meant no disrespect," he apologized.
Sebastian sighed in frustration.
"Well the baby sure looks a hell lot like ya," she said.
Andri didn't respond in any way.
"We've had a long day, Tessa. And we'd rather not talk about it," Sebastian explained.
"What a grumpy bunch ya mates are."
"Tessa, look…"
"Ya don' hafta explain. I get it. She left ya and now ya're all broken hearted and shit."
Andri's thoughts were all messed up. What if Tessa was right?
"I am not the baby's father. Could we please drop it now?" Andri asked, a little frustrated.
The rest of the journey was quiet and long.