Epilogue
Sylvanas' heart was heavy, and the sunlight mocked her. She stalked up to the Mausoleum her lynx had built, eyes burning as the arm she cradled glinted in the light.
She entered the tomb, the smell of death greeting her, and the Mist licking at her ankles as she moved silently through the lifeless place-her child's sanctuary, her penance. And now her tomb.
She reached the modest shelf, all the way in the lowest level, where only a hint of the light of the sky reached, and a simple plaque read:
Teir Windrunner's Final Place of Rest, For the Glory of the Dead
Sylvanas' heart heaved as she set the arm down, the instrument missing the child she loved.
As Sylvanas' touch faded, it felt as though a sigh echoed through the mausoleum, and then-
Mist filled the room, and Teir sat there, red hair shining in the light, cocoa skin glowing.
She looked at the stunned Sylvanas with sad, turquoise eyes.
"Thank you," she said quietly, two whole arms tracing the engravings on the arm.
"I-you-," Sylvanas' heart and head hurt.
"I'm not alive, no. But...you have brought me to my resting place. I can move on now...but I must tell you something."
The spirit moved from the arm, fingers tracing the intricate adornments of the walls she built, "The day I found out you had my memories, I was coming to you to tell you I had completed my penance."
Sylvanas' breathing ceased-she had never known.
Teir smiled kindly, the features of her face glowing with it, "The Mist Speaker who witnessed my first death came to me through Jadearra, and in return for my penance, she gave a prophecy-one that declared that I would die, along with Kenlora, on the Broken Shore. I hadn't pondered it in so long, but that day..." Her face grew distant, and Sylvanas waited with baited breath, "That day, on the shore, it returned to me, and I knew. But I accepted it. I knew no one could live forever." Teir smiled eyes watery "You've yet to learn that lesson, my lady. I pray you do so on your terms, and no one else's, as I was allowed. I love you, Sylvanas."
Then she was truly gone from Azeroth.