The next moment I felt a shadow fall over my eyes, it was Leona's head blocking the sun, she stood over me and asked if I had slept well. 'No', I replied, 'what time is it?' 'Time to get up', she said, not knowing what I was feeling it seemed. I tried to find my cautiousness and my strength to get up. Leona meanwhile tried to wake up Ashe who didn't seem to be in any better mood than me. I tried to sit but fell back to the ground. 'What's with you?' Leona asked. 'Nothing I said, just a little dizzy'. I tried to get up but was chained to the ground, I could not get up. 'Damn', I let out, 'seems you will have to carry me as I cannot stand on my own legs'. 'What's the matter?' Leona asked. 'My legs are numb', I said looking up to Ashe and Leona. 'Then we will carry you and find a remedy in Dalaran', Ashe said. 'Are you sure you can handle this?' I asked, feeling guilty. 'A lightweight like you won't cause any problems', she laughed, 'this prisoner of ours is the hardest part'. Leona and Ashe both put their shoulders under my arms and carried me. We moved slowly alongside the river, the rogue still wrapped in rope walking behind us, quietly, the first towers of Dalaran had been visible the entire morning already but the distance was still great, and it wouldn't move that fast if I were to be carried. I meanwhile wondered what the matter with me was. Was it something I ate? Couldn't be, Ashe and Leona ate the same things and weren't affected even a bit. After a while of thinking I came to the realization that my carriers were quite overextending. 'Take it easy and have a rest', I said. They lay me down, and gave me some water as I couldn't even reach out my arm anymore. I sincerely hoped that there would be someone in Dalaran who could help me. We moved on after a little break. Ashe said that we would be in Dalaran soon. At the end of the morning we reached Dalaran, the mage-city. It was a small city with the only purpose of providing a place for mages to study. Most of them lives in nearby towns like Tarren Mill, only few of them had the right to remain in the city at night I had heard. We were met by a red robed long-haired mage as we walked through the streets of the small city. It must have been a strange sight for him. We were after all, three outsiders of which ne was unable to walk and a man on a leash. It was evident that we would not go unnoticed. 'Hello', he greeted us, Korialstrasz is the name, I see that you can use some help, can't you?' I calmly said that for some reason my legs and arms were numb and that the man we had caught was a villain and that I would gladly accept any help I could get. 'Guards!' he then yelled, in no time there were two armoured men next to him, he asked to take the man to the tribunal. 'I might have a solution for you', he said, after the scoundrel was taken away, 'if you will follow me, what's the name by the way?' 'Faragi', I said, 'and Leona and Ashe, but something tells me that you already knew that'. 'How did you know that I would know your name?' he asked, turning around. 'Just guessing', I said. He laughed, 'Then you have already guessed that I know that we both know that you are not only here for your immobility problem, is that right?' Leona seemed confused, Ashe giggled at her, 'mages', she said. I already started to like this guy for his sense of humour. He stopped at the door of one of the less high but bigger in diameter size, pulling out a key ring and when he got the right one, he opened the door. I didn't expect mages in Dalaran to still use primitive things like keys and it seemed quite funny. 'Mages', I thought in the way Ashe had said it earlier. We went in a dark room, with a few gestures of his hands Korialstrasz summoned a strange yellow glow to illuminate the room. When the room was no longer dark I saw what I had expected to find in a sorcerer's room; shelves fixed on the walls filled with pots and vials filled with all kinds of stuff, strange liquids, glowing and bubbling and powders and pieces of paper seemingly dating back to ages ago, compiled of magic spells, all around. Korialstrasz reached out for some of those vials and started turning pages in a dusty old book. When he seemed to have found the right page he grabbed a vial, checked the label and poured it into a drinking glass, filled it with a colourless liquid and added a green powder, a sparkling effect was the result. After the fizzing he added water to fill the remainder of the glass. 'Drink this', he said, after the reaction was over. Ashe lifted my head as Korialstrasz let me drink it. I must say that this strange brew didn't even taste bad; in fact it was quite nice. 'Well', Ashe said, 'How do you feel', she expected this magical drink you give immediate effect and that I was to stand on my legs within an instant. This, however, wasn't the result. 'I can't feel a thing', I said to Ashe. 'Yet', Korialstrasz finished my sentence, 'just wait'. In due time I could indeed feel my arms and legs getting warm again. After I was able to stand again, still a bit dizzy I asked Korialstrasz whether he had any idea what that could have been. 'A spell', he spoke, slowly and very relaxed, maybe a bit too relaxed, 'Someone wanted to get you out of the way', he resumed, 'It would slowly consume you until you...' he stopped. I sighed. 'What if someone is to try that again?' I asked, in fear of it happening again. 'Here, take this', he handed me a small jar filled with the powder and a vial filled with the liquid he used before. 'You see how I did it before, try to use as much water as you can to dissolve the mixture in'. 'Alright', I said, feeling better now that I could defend myself against someone who was trying to use magic tricks on me. Suddenly a bird flew into the room through the opened door, it was Ashe's hawk. 'Snowy', she called out, smiling. 'Appropriate name', I said. Ashe took the piece of paper wrapped around its claw. Her beautiful smile disappeared as she was reading the note; I sensed something must have gone wrong. 'What's the matter Ashe?' Leona asked, she probably felt the same as me. Ashe closed her eyes and said that the encampment was attacked again by Noxus' soldiers. 'How are they?' I immediately asked. 'They're fine, for now...' she sighed deeply, 'this cannot go on forever'. 'Is it just me or is Noxus conspiring with Stormwind?' thought loudly. 'What do you mean?' Ashe and Leona asked in sync. 'Well, who else would benefit more from enemy reinforcements being crippled than Stormwind?' 'Could be', Ashe said, 'but as far as I know, Noxus would never help outsiders'. 'They might divide our grounds once conquered', I offered, 'but I don't see why the Humans of Stormwind would share'. 'Isn't it obvious?' Leona said, once they've taken your land, they will go and fight each other for it'. Korialstrasz suddenly broke the silence, 'seems plausible, what if I help them out?' 'You mean?' I started. 'I will go and help your friends in Freljord', he said, very determined, 'but first, I will introduce you to Rhonin, the arch-mage of Dalaran. We left the building and walked over the yellow stones of Dalaran's streets, until we came to a great building at a corner with a stairs leading the entrance. As we entered the doorway Korialstrasz asked us to wait. He went up the righter of the two stairs which were crescent shaped and parallel to each one in front of us. I took a look around me observing the inner of this building; it was entirely lit in a blue light due to the transparent curtains in front of the windows and the rugs on the floor. After a while of looking around Korialstrasz returned with a person who had to be Rhonin. He didn't seem to be as old as one would expect a mage to be, particularly if they bore the title of arch-mage,about a year of thirty he was quite young, he had a small brown beard and gentle looking eyes. 'Hello', he said as he had descended the stairs. 'You must be Faragi, Leona and Ashe', he shook our hands correspondingly is that order. 'I have heard about your problem and I am willing to help, you seek training don't you?' we hadn't talked about that with Korialstrasz yet and yet he knew, 'mages', I thought. 'But don't leak a word to the outside', he continued, 'we, mages, prefer to remain seen as neutral to the outside. I nodded in agreement. 'Well, I will take care of you three then, Korialstrasz will go to Freljord and help your friends out as he has discussed with you already'. Korialstrasz departed and we followed Rhonin to one of this building's chambers. We talked about the information we had gathered and we talked about our lodging, we would remain in this building as would Rhonin, he had a room prepared for us by some of his servants. He led us around the city and showed us some interesting facts, a bit of history and shops that could come in handy for any supplies we would need.
At the end of afternoon he showed us where our training would take place, I was amazed how big this building was it seemed to have everything in it, we entered a great hall, completely empty. For now, had Rhonin mentioned. 'No one is studying today, but you will see it living tomorrow'. I was fortunate that Uzug had not come with me for at the evening, at dinner time Rhonin (he had invited us for it and had insisted that we would eat with him for our stay) filled the table with the most exotic kinds of food with a few moves of his hands. If Uzug saw this he would despair. I thought so but later I found out that he would laugh at these magic tricks because it didn't taste as good as his self-prepared dishes. It was not bad, not at all, but fact was that it wasn't as good as Uzug's. That night I went to bed early while Ashe and Leona were still doing things in town, I wanted to be fully rested and concentrated for my first training the next day, it would be a great deal if I hadn't taken this seriously.
I was excited about my first training the next day and so seemed my two friends. Rhonin started with the words that everything we were capable of was already in us; we just had to find a way to get it out. This was true looking to the event with my arrows, having some magical guide, I just wasn't able to explain it until now. Korialstrasz explained that that had to do with willpower, the mage's strongest weapon and that that would be on which I had to focus, willpower. Ashe and Leona, already trained in some ways would have someone else to train them as they were focusing on different aspects like agility and reflexes, Leona however, also got part-time training from Rhonin, to develop her bounds to the sun. We all put full effort into this, knowing that we would need it, and that it could change the future for my homeland.
