"Are we nearly there?" Kael'thas complained.

"Kael'thas, we've only been walking for ten minutes, and yes, we are almost there. Honestly, you never stop yapping." Sylvanas muttered the last part.

"Wow." Li-Ming exclaimed, as she took in the beauty of the castle.

"The architecture, the placement of the arches, the tinted glass!" Kael'thas let out a dramatic sigh. "This almost puts the Sunstrider Palace I grew up in to shame! Almost."

They pushed open the castle doors, to a large hallway of near silence.

"Why is it made of such rare metals?" Tyrande observed the floor, and let out a little yelp as she banged her toe against the wall.

Suddenly, inexplicably, a voice from behind rang out!

"You guys!" it called.

The entire group screamed, before recognizing the voice.

"November Terra! Long time no see!" Li-ming said.

"Shh! Keep it down! We don't want them to hear us!" Nova replied back.

The entire group looked around. "W-who might be watching us? Where are they?" Kael'thas asked. He looked around again. "And speaking of where, where are you, as well?"

"I'm under a cloak! And 'they' are Lo and Mince."

Tyrande looked confused. "Who?" she asked.

"Remember that one guy that named himself Sephiroth? Well, he's, like, 2nd in command for Penelope and he apparently commissioned Penelope or something to make him a slave with low social ranking and little to no freedom to do what she wants or speak her mind. There's your little explanation. And now we're going to sneak into her room, get her to tell us where Penelope is, and then we keep her as a comedic relief."

"Where's her room?"

Nova pointed towards the end of the hallway, near a large window.

"Brightwing's already sitting out front the door, waiting to polymorph the girl if she starts to fight back."

They walked through the hall, careful to make as little noise as possible.

Nova disabled her cloak, and gave Brightwing the signal to start attacking. Brightwing lunged through the doorway, and landed on the girl's head, messing up her Miku-esque pigtails. Lo screamed and grabbed Brightwing by the antennae, and forced her to the ground. She grabbed a small dagger from inside a pocket on her dress. Nova screamed "GO! GET IN THERE!" and the entire team rushed through the doorway, and grabbed her, ready to break her arms if needed. The girl thrashed and bit the hand of Tyrande, who screamed and let go of Lo. Lo was now free and was scrambling across the room. Sylvanas notched an arrow, and shot Lo in the leg. Lo screamed, and ripped it out. She turned to Sylvanas, before rushing over and slicing her face with the dagger. Sylvanas dropped, And Kael stopped casting spells to check on her. She had a large, deep gash from her cheekbone to her chin. Kael'thas ripped a piece of his fancy cape off, and put it on Sylvanas' face in an attempt to stop the bleeding.

Nova noticed Kael had stopped. "Kael! Stop! Just leave her, we've got to focus on the little brat trying to dice us up!"

Lo ran up to Nova and slashed her calf, making Nova fall to the ground in pain.

Kael'thas noticed how fast the girl was running, and the particular pattern of which part of the room at a time. He began doing some calculations in his head.

Brightwing polymorphed the girl into a small little chicken, but it only lasted five seconds before she changed back and ran to the corner of the room where there was a bookshelf.

Kael'thas knew his calculations had to be correct. They were always correct. He had predicted that she would now run to the corner of the room with the laptop on the desk, and he was correct. He ran over, grabbed her by the hair, and lifted her off the ground.

"OW! OOWWW! WATCH THE HAAAAIIIRRRR!" She whined.

"I know that hurts, because my father did this to me as a child when I acted up, more times than countable!" Kael'thas shouted over the girls yelps of pain.

Nova painstakingly stood up. "Good job, Kael! Now, we just need to ask out little friend here some questions!"

Kael'thas remembered Sylvanas in the corner of the room, and told Nova, "Actually, can you hold her for interrogation? We have an injured woman on the floor."

Kael'thas handed Lo to Nova and rushed over to Sylvanas.

"Are you okay?" He asked her.

She lifted herself off the ground, and replied with a "Yes, and you shouldn't be do worried about me, Sunstrider. I can take care of myself, after all."

"Sorry if I care whether or not you die."

Sylvanas was taken aback. "Oh, no! I didn't mean it like that! I just meant that every time I get hurt, you're always to the rescue, mopping up my blood with bits of cloth and cape. You don't need to do that. You're wrecking that cape."

Nova called the two over.

"She says that Penelope's set up shop in the Raven Lord's palace. We have to go there."

Brightwing nearly choked on her own tongue. "Friend Nova! Tell Brightwing you're kidding!"

Nova put her hand on the tiny creatures shoulder. "Friend Nova ain't kidding. But we're going to need some help. Anybody have any ideas on where all the others are? We're going to need an actual goddamn army if we want to storm the place."

Jaina spoke. "We're going to check every square mile of inhabited Nexus until everyone's found. But I say we start with the towns, preferably big ones. People will be desperate for supplies, and i'm pretty sure nobody else but Tyrande, Lunara, and Malfurion know how to plant and garden and farm."

"Which town first?"

Jaina looked at a map on the table.

We should start in the far northwest. But the first town there, Alclimius, is a long time away. About fifteen days on foot, and we just don't have that kind of time. I can teleport us there if you want."

"Yeah, teleportation seems fine."

Jaina began the spell. Brilliant blue lights filling the air. A hole in the air opened, with a faint image of Alclimius in it.

"Okay, everyone, one at a ti- HEY! I SAID ONE AT A TIME! YOU GUYS!"

Consort: Damn straight it's fudge brownies. Who the hell doesn't like fudge brownies? Except for people with an allergy to stuff in brownies and fudge. Then I understand.

Oh yeah, the people who lived in that castle are like that. As soon as their pretty pink castle's back, it'll be back to backstabbing best friends and poisoning the social punch bowl with lies about other people.