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The Human gently offered her petite, yet strong hands down to Glurglegum, a gesture of overcoming racial, and intellectual barriers. This was a common greeting by the citizens of Theramore, as under their leader the young sorceress Jaina Proudmoore they were encouraged to bypass old racial prejudices' of old. Glurglegum, having never seen a human before except for the Southsea pirates who frequently raided the Likilly clan's underwater caverns in order to find the hidden pearls which were stashed there, decided it was appropriate to cautiously approach the human woman and grip her palm with a slimy, wet palm of its own. Glurglegum could see the corners of the woman's mouth turn slightly upwards. She was happy. Seeing a human so relaxed and comfortable in the presence of a lower creature made Glurglegum re-asses the woman. Surely she didn't look like a pirate with all that clunky, heavy gear on. No, she must have been a Theramore soldier, charged with a diplomacy mission to parley with the Murlocs.
"Hello, where are your Murloc brethren?" The woman asked calmly with a slightly anxious undertone as if something were wrong. Glurglegum could tell she was trying to compose herself as officially and stoically as possible. He knew that Azeroth's humans were not the most flexible, or accepting race as opposed to the gear grinding gnomes who couldn't really care less what race you are but most importantly that you enjoy enhancing the lives of others with your inventions, or like the shamanistic tauren who enjoy the presence of all who care for the ancestral spirits that watch over them and praise the Earthmother for her finest piece of work, life on Azeroth.
"Murloc... Gone... Pirate... Raid..." Glurglegum wasn't as fluent in Common as say the furbolgs or ogres were, but he knew some broken Common having lived less than 2 miles from a major goblin settlement, Gadgetzan. This broken Common was enough for the woman to understand what had happened. There had been a raid on the Likilly clan's caverns and most of the clan was slaughtered, all but Glurglegum.
"Laddah, my name is Laddah. I'm a warrior sent by Lady Proudmoore to parley with your clan, but now there seems no clan to Parley with, unfortunately. You should leave this area, soon the pirates will realise that they didn't get all of the Murlocs and I'm sure they will come back to finish you all off."
Laddah knew that the pirates would come back; she briefly pondered the idea that Lady Proudmoore knew the pirates were going to slaughter the Likilly clan in a search for treasure and pearls, and maybe that's why she had sent her down to parley with them. What was she going to tell Lady Proudmoore?
Theramore was a sitting duck; it is the only major Alliance settlement in all of southern Kalimdor. They needed all the help they could get seeing as the nearest major alliance settlement was a whole continents length away. Jaina knew, and so did all of Theramore that it was only a matter of time before the Horde forces attempted to overthrow Theramore in an attempt to silence the human base forever. Garrosh knew that the human leader, King Varian Wrynn, kept Theramore under a watchful eye as he knew along with the rest of the Alliance leaders that Theramore was situated on a strategically placed peninsula which made it perfect for keeping an eye on nearby Horde activity.
"Hello...Laddah...Pretty... For human." The words came out awkwardly and sloppily, but Laddah knew that the murloc had no intentions to harm her; she had a sudden maternal instinct to take the murloc back to Theramore.
"Come back to Theramore with me, please? You will be much safer there and there are many more murloc clans which prosper in the Wetlands and Hillsbrad Foothills across the ocean. We can take you there, where you will prosper with no fear of murder by the pirates." Laddah knew taking a murloc back to Theramore would be easy; the people there were generally well-mannered and accepting of other neutral races. Crossing the ocean might be a problem though, not many boat owners would be willing to allow a creature like a murloc on their vessel. Also crossing the Burning Steppes and badlands would be hard when you had to spend some time in the water to survive.
"Thank you." Glurglegum had never used those words before, he was grateful that Laddah had come to Tanaris to try and beat the pirates to the caverns.
"Tomorrow, we leave for Theramore tomorrow!" Laddah was the kind of human who had a one track mind, when she started something, she would not rest until she had completed that goal. This goal just might take a little bit longer than usual. With that, Laddah and Glurglegum stood facing the ocean, staring out across the monstrous depths. She knew that the pirates would be back soon, they didn't have time to linger. Laddah and Glurglegum turned away from the ocean and headed back to the first town on their journey, the goblin market town of Gadgetzan.