After a week or so, we decided that we would have to go, I had found myself able to almost fully control my will, I could make things happen of which I had never ever dared to dream if I focused enough. Ashe had set up a rendezvous with the rest of the group at the camp in Freljord using her hawk to communicate. Rhonin had said to us that he would have liked to come with us but that he was not allowed to; the High Seven of Dalaran, in which Korialstrasz has a place too, decided with majority not to interfere with any of the races. As we prepared our bags to move out again Rhonin came to us. 'I know you have to leave', he said, 'but couldn't you rely on me to fix your transportation?' 'What do you mean?' I asked, 'wait, do you mean?' I suddenly remembered that some mages were able of conjuring portals to cross large distances in the blink of an eye. 'Yep', he responded. Rhonin had created one in no time, a purple edged singularity of space and time through which we could see Ashe's base camp. 'Move quickly', Rhonin said, 'it won't hold on for long, and Korialstrasz has to get back through it. We waved goodbye and jumped through it. On the other side the others were already waiting for us, if you can call it waiting, maybe they were just curious what had just appeared in front of their eyes. Korialstrasz greeted us and wished goodbye right after that, 'we will meet again', he said, and he jumped with into the portal. After he had jumped into it the edges pulled together and it disappeared. I was glad to see my friends again; I hoped they spend their time useful as well. It was only a few seconds later that I noticed that Thrall wasn't with the rest. 'Where is Thrall?' I asked. 'He is in his tent', Uzug said, it took a great deal of his strength to delay the humans of Stormwind so long, he is exhausted'. I rushed to his tent to see him. When I got in he lay on his bed, still focusing his mind on something it seemed. I told him to stop whatever he was doing and to regain his strength; we had to move to Eversong as quickly as possible. He looked to me and nodded slowly. He seemed to regain his strength gradually over that day. Tryndamere told me that the Noxians were not going to attack anywhere soon since Korialstrasz had really scared the hell out of them with his magical powers. So we broke up the camp and prepared to move out. Thrall would no longer delay the Humans of Stormwind and we would have to take care of them ourselves once we got to Eversong.
That night we slept in the open air so we could move out as soon as dawn arrived without having to put up and take down all of the tents again, Tryndamere had instructed a few men to watch out for any hostile movements and to keep the fires throughout the camp burning.
We moved out as soon as dawn had introduced itself, and like all others we carried things, no exceptions made. I tried to carry a tent pole with Uzug but that didn't work out too well so he switched in for Ashe since she was about my height, making it a lot easier. We made our way through the mountain pass and through the snowy plains, I had a hard time keeping up to the pass they moved in, they were fast. Later that day we reached the oasis, we had a bit of trouble finding enough space for everybody but we managed to. We decided not to move any further, it was not so late yet, but it would take us half a day to cross the other part of the desert, so we stayed. I felt sorry for the fish in the lake here, there wouldn't be many left after we had left. I asked Thrall, who had regained most of his strength how long it would take for the Humans to arrive at the shores of Lordaeron, the kingdom next to the Eversong woods from which they would have to go further by foot. 'About four days', was his answer. That meant that after this day we had three days to prepare of which one we would need to travel for sure.
I tried to think of any strategic plans with Tryndamere, who seemed an expert in those kinds of things, that evening. It was very obvious we were outnumbered, by far, we had to take on both the Humans of Noxus and the Humans of Stormwind, so we did have to use the terrain to our advantage. I tried to explain how the woods looked like and drew some sketches of the area, most of the terrain was equal but there were some changes here and there like hills and ditches from erosion which could function as choking points. My knowledge of the woods came in as a great advantage, Tryndamere explained what would be done and it seemed quite reasonable to me. He told me that some of the woods would have to be deforested to make his plans work, I agreed in this knowing that this would be the only way of having success. He then called his officers to explain the situation, I left the conversation to talk with the rest of our group about what Tryndamere and I had planned. Uzug and Tryndamere seemed intrigued by the plans; they admired such an art of warfare. They would both have to stand their ground and not let anyone pass, they liked such things. I however did not, I wouldn't want them in the most dangerous place but they assured me that the training they had had in the past week would allow them to overcome things like this.
I couldn't sleep too well with all these things keeping my head in a restless state and I felt that the day after. The journey seemed to take ages and the pole Ashe and I carried seemed to weigh twice as much as before I carried on however, not wanting to show my weakness. In one of the breaks we took I mixed some of Korialstrasz' powder and water hoping that it would work again, it didn't however but it was well worth trying. I felt a spark of joy when we reached the border of the woods late afternoon but it was as quickly blotted out as it had aroused knowing that we had to travel all the way to Silvermoon if we weren't to give away the fact that we would have a surprise waiting within the forest. It was hard to manoeuvre a group like this through the woods but we came out if without many scars. On the other side was the city of Silvermoon, the capital of the Elves, a majestic city with walls of about twenty metres high, and statues of different important figures from the past were build in them, some I recognised, others were unknown to me to this day. We proceeded setting up our encampment again in front of the walls without any permission since Thrall's presence would give us sanctuary.
We re-entered the woods now with only the six of us, Thrall went to see the leader of Silvermoon so we were without him. We looked for any hidden scouts but we could see nor hear any so we assumed they had already left. We made some preparations to the terrain putting it in our advantage when hell would break loose. We came back later with some men to chop down several trees which we used to make an artificial wall on one side of a clearance, this way the humans had to cross an open area and we would be hidden in the forest. We finished for the day when it was pitch black, I had no idea how late it was when we arrived back in the camp. It was all quiet between the tents and the fires were put out to not give away a thing. I entered my tent and just lay down not even bothering to undress, Leona came in soon after, but I was already drifting away.