They had offered us to spend the night in the barracks of their female members, Aelana and I, however, decided to stay in the infirmery instead, it was much less crowded and if anyone needed medical asssistance we would be here to help. I knew the two human soldiers that Aelana had sent here wouldn't need much help, she knew perfectly well what she was doing. We picked a bed far away from them to sleep in, or just her, actually. She checked up on the soldiers' wounds and alleviated the pain a bit before undressing and joining me. We kissed deeply and continuously until she fell asleep, we kept it decent because of the company we had on the other side of the room, I really wished we could have some nights alone soon, I longed for her love. After she had fallen asleep I wrapped my wings around her, using them as blankets to keep her warm. I really loved holding her close like this. The priestess's smile confirmed me that she was at peace.
I tried falling asleep as well, but it was literally impossible, I had to stay up for a week or so before I needed any sleep. Even that battle with the frost wyrm didn't tire me enough. Sure, it had been a long day for me without any chances to regain my energy, but the exhaustion from all that is only temporary. After some hours of playing with Aelana's hair, and kissing her all over her face, one of the soldiers woke up and walked to me. He sat down on the bed next to me, quietly as to not wake Aelana. It was the man whose hand was cut off.
"I have a hard time falling back asleep, you mind talking a bit?" he whispered.
"Not at all," I whispered back, "I could do with killing some time until it's morning again."
"Why would you do that, trouble sleeping too?" he questioned.
"Sort of, you see, ever since I became, this, I hardly need sleep."
"That's got to have a lot of advantages," he tried cheering me up.
"Somestimes it does, but it gets extremely boring at nights when Aelana needs to sleep."
"So Aelana is her name, I'm sorry, I'm afraid we haven't properly met yet, Lucas is the name, Lucas of Northshire."
"Angel," I replied, Angel Silverlight."
"But that's an Elven name!" he looked at me, clearly confused.
"That's correct, I am, I mean, I was an elf in life."
"But how?" he said, forgetting to whisper. Aelana stirred as a result.
She didn't wake but I waited a bit before responding. After she was soundly snoring again I told him how I ended up like this, how Arthas killed me, ripped my soul from me, and how I was inserted into this body. I also told him how I met Aelana and how we had grown together over the past few days.
He apologised for asking such a sensitive thing.
"It's alright," I said, "I will have to live with it, and I have somebody who loves me like this, that's all that matters to me now."
"I can see that yes," he smiled, "you were a paladin right? I mean, I heard a few of our men talk how you handled that blade like a true master."
"I was, but I was still in training when it happened."
"I wouldn't think that you were, even our commander took notice of your style."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."
I felt his gaze as I caressed the sleeping elf in my arms.
"Good thing you found her, she fixed up my arm quite nicely," he chuckled as he showed his stump.
"Could I have a look at that please?" I asked, remembering something that happens more often when fighting undead.
He stood up and let me take it in my hands, the outside looked clean but I could feel it was infected.
"What's wrong?" he whisppered.
"It's infected," I whispered back, "stay calm, I got this."
I went to work, it wasn't too advanced, but left untreated this man would die eventually, or worse, which seemed more likely.
"I'm sorry if that hurt," I said after I used my light magic on Lucas. I decided to leave out the part where it would have been deathly if I hadn't found it out.
"It didn't, thanks again."
"Guess I got to check on the other guy too eh," I pointed to the other soldier at the end of the room, "I will check him tomorrow, I am not really in a position to leave my bed right now."
"Sounds like a good idea to me, If you ever need help, please, don't hesitate to ask."
"That's actually the reason we came here," I replied, "It seems we will have a scourge attack incoming on an old village in southern Quel'Thalas, it's called Tranquillien, we came here to seek your aid."
"Well, if it's scourge that needs killing, you can always count on me, I can still be of use, even without my bad hand."
I smiled at Lucas's braveness, "thank you."
"I think I will head to bed now, I guess I will see you in the morning?."
I nodded, "good night."
"Good night," he whispered as he went to bed.
I went back to watching Aelana. How I wish I would be able to sleep again every night. I tried resting some, I wanted to fly to Tranquillien as soon as possible in the morning. From what I heard from Aelana it is now a neutral town, consisting of both the forsaken and blood elves, aiming to rid the 'Ghostlands' as they now called southern Quel'Thalas apparently, of the scourge that still remained there. I really did not look forward to seeing it like that.
