My aunt Telavani, my father's twin sister. A priest, no, a shadow priest, a mad, completely crazy, nuttier than squirrel droppings, shadow priest, but powerful in her ways, and is rarely wrong in her visions for the future. She knew the Ashbringer that Tirion Fordring gave me would break. The things she says, "Greetings. Laughter. Forms out of air. Light. Memories. Light and Darkness. So many. Broken paths at every… Missing. Missing. Missing! It's breaking Perfectia, it's breaking. It will not last long.. `` And she would point at the Ashbringer.
Yeah, things like that.
Now she gleefully expects her master to rise up from the ocean floor and I know this because she told me her story about her love affair with Kael'thas Sunstrider before and during the Scourge attack, but it's hard to say what is really going on with her. The purple glow that would appear in her eye's during combat is something I would see in a lot of priests that used shadow powers, but they still retained their minds when they stopped using it. For as long as I've known my aunty she's always been this way, always had that unfading grin even in times of pain or despair.
I had seen her get angry though, I think that was the only time I haven't seen her with a face that wasn't uncontrolled glee. Wait, maybe I'm wrong.
She does care about her brother (my dad) and me, and at times I'm sure she has had some moments of despair during the invasion, but the front that she puts out is crazy. Her visions were always bad, is her smile maybe just her will not to give into despair, in spite of knowing that something terrible is going to happen? I'm at a point in my life where I don't know what to do and the riddles of my crazy aunty are a much-needed distraction compared to what is present.
I mentally prepared myself for this, I found an undead priest that was exiting the Order Hall and lightly tugged on his robes to get his attention.
"You shouldn't do that, it's rude." He looked back at me with a look of surprise,
Can I help you?"
"Yes, I'm sorry to bother-" I started.
He looked back, behind me, "Not you, her."
"Lose something?" She said, I was startled by the voice that was behind me. My aunt Telavani was levitating behind me like she was laying on the ground, but she was face to face with me.
"Just stay away from me, okay?" The undead priest looked up at her.
I half smiled and rolled my eyes as the undead priest ran away in a panic. "Staying popular I see." I said sarcastically.
With my back turned to her she came behind me and hugged me from behind making a small amount of panic go through my body, "I heard your drinking problem had gotten worse but you don't smell like it. I'm so glad you're making progress and came here to see me. Me being with you. You are safe, away from space." She said,
I put my hand on her touch and sighed, "Aunty, could you at least please try to speak normally." I complained.
I heard her laugh, "I am speaking normally, see? They're, no need for proof reading, at least my parts anyways." I think she knew I was going to write about this…
I put my hand on my head and told myself that I had mentally prepared for this, "I was wondering- "
"Quite alright." She interrupted, I turned around, faced her, and crossed my arms, "One moment please." She continued. "Second chorus." She said and started singing a funny childlike song. I motioned with my hand in a circular motion hoping that she would get the picture that I wanted her to get through with her act, so I would get a moment to talk, but she started disappearing into nothingness. Her voice was getting farther away.
"Wait, don't go please." I pleaded when she had completely faded from my sight.
Her smile glowed white and her green eyes shined through, I couldn't see anything else of her. "There you are." She came back into full vision, "Very well, third chorus."
"No, no, no. Thank you, aunty." I bowed. "But I just need to know what I should do now, where should I go?"
She was still levitating like she was laying on the ground, she told me she was able to do this when she was near the Sunwell. Now that it came back, she had grown even more powerful after that as well. Even more so than from her story. She held her head up with her hands. "Well that depends." She said as she crossed her eyes and looked away. "On where," she looked back at me, "You want to get to." She touched my nose with her finger.
I sighed and shook my head, "I don't know, I guess it doesn't matter. As long as-"
"Then," She interrupted, stood up, and shrugged, "it really doesn't matter which way you go." She put her feet on the ground and started walking away. She started disappearing again, but I could hear her footsteps as she walked away.
I grabbed at where the sound was coming from and it felt like I put my hand through running water, but my hands weren't wet. She appeared again. "Tell me something, aunty!" I demanded, "I came to you for help, I've done something terrible and I don't know what I'm supposed to do now."
Her smile left her face, she placed her hand on my shoulder and came close to my ear, "He wields the broken sword, and separates kings from tyrants, seek him out, Perfectia."
I was disappointed, but she looked at me blankly, which was something she barely did, which made me think she was being genuine, it was something, "I guess you're going to disappear into thin air again." I complained.
My aunty rolled her eyes, "I was actually thinking about using the stairs." She paused, "I will miss you." She left to the portal going to Silvermoon.
I told Protecto the riddle and brought me to the Elwynn Forest on a high mountain where no one could see me. At least no one in the Alliance did. The Bronze Dragon Flight was neutral so he was able to fly down there and tell what the statue said, "Former Lieutenant to Lord Anduin Lothar. Knight of the Silver Hand. High General of the Alliance Expedition that marched into the orc homeworld of Draenor. Presumed deceased. Esarus thar no Darador - By Blood and Honor We Serve. You were the right hand of justice and virtue, old friend. Your name will be honored in our halls always."
We brainstormed it for a while. We've been staring at that broken sword statue that's near the front gates of Stormwind for about an hour now. I've been writing for about three hours. "Is there some way you could join the Alliance?" Protecto asked.
"I kind of already have." I looked up and remembered back.
"You had to put on a hundred plus pounds to get your eye's to turn blue? I don't know if my back and wings can take that." I teased me, as always, but I didn't understand the statement completely. "45 kilos, I think."
"Oh… No, it was a lot more and technically I still haven't lost it. I just went to different places." I slapped my own rear. "I don't even want to think about how heavy I would be if I tried to gain weight like that again… I think even Lucy would start to complain."
I'm glad me and Protecto were able to work through what happened, but how could I possibly join the Alliance, I think I might know a way. It's a long shot and I think Protecto wouldn't approve of who I'm going to have to go through, so I'm going to need to keep this away from him, but I think she will help. I didn't want to go down this road again, but I need to find Vereesa Windrunner.
(Lines from Alice in Wonderland)
