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| Author: | Saaron |
| Summary: | After an almost five months break, Sandy is back to writing his journal, briefly going over everything that happened since last time. |
| Rating: | T for Teen |
28th entry of Gausanders Spellbond’s journal
I know I said that it had been a while last time I wrote in my journal, but it has been an even bigger while this time!
I’m going to go over stuff quickly because a lot happened since then.
Let’s start with Company stuff!
We’re helping the elements right now! There’s this part of Outland that’s really, really broken called Shadowmoon Valley. The Wildhammer dwarves are in there and since I live in Aerie Peak this place feels like home… kind of. It feels like home, if home was all broken and corrupted and fel-y.
Anyway, we’re doing a bunch of stuff there! Stopping attacks from bad guys, helping the coolest birdman I’ve ever met who was the last survivor of his people (we had to stop the ghosts of his friends from summoning an Old God!) and we’re helping an orc who’s trying to heal the elements of this valley. We’re going to summon a Fire Lord with a dark ritual so I feel like I’ll be very useful to the team on that day. I can’t really imagine Auralind or Ben doing a dark ritual! Elo and Sil, though… maybe!
[The following lines are hard to read as they’ve been scratched out, but some words are still readable.]
We’re -- lot of -— elves, which - sad --- Sil -- friend --- blind ----- demon.
Anyway, onto personal news!
I don’t remember if I’ve written this before but it’s worth writing it as often as I possibly can: Gwen is my girlfriend, now! Officially, officially! People know about it… I think.
…
Did we ever tell anyone in the Company about it?
Well, even if we didn’t it’s official for real! We just didn’t think about it because it’s so obvious we’re a perfect match! We support each other and all. She’s always there for me, even when things get terribly awful and I hope I am for her as well!
Speaking of terribly awful things… I met my birth dad and wait not that sounds like meeting my birth dad was the terribly awful thing but it’s not! I mean at first, it was terrible but it got better—anyway! I met my dad and we became really close really fast. He’s the best! He just didn’t want to tell me about my birth mom, and oh whoa, maybe now I get why. I found her, she’s still alive! Well, I mean… I’ll keep the surprise reveal for later! But anyway, we exchanged letters for a while. She’s a warlock, like me, and she says she did use fel and void magic when I wasn’t born yet so she thinks maybe that’s why I’ve progressed so well with my studies of these energies! She says that dad hates warlocks and that I shouldn’t tell him that’s my job… Which I didn’t, anyway! But she encouraged me not to tell him. Maybe it’s best if I stay a fire mage in his mind! She also said I shouldn’t warn dad that I found her. Which I didn’t. But maybe I will, soon! And maybe I will tell him about the warlock stuff! Everyone, especially Gwen thinks this is a very “cheese”-like situation and I should tell him. I don’t really know what to do! I really need to think about this!
Moving on! At some point my birth mom, Sirie, was like “Hey, I’m in Booty Bay right now if you want to finally meet your birth mom!” and I got there and I was ready and so happy. I go in, it smells terrible and I see a body on the ground. I panic, I see she kind of looks like me and I’m feeling terrible, my birth mom died right before I got to meet her and… she laughs.
My birth mom is undead! That sounds like the title of a book, but no it’s not fictional it’s real! She’s part of the Forsaken. And really, that’s not fun at all! This whole situation, her home, the way she spoke, it all made me really uncomfortable, but I wanted to stay because she’s my birth mom! You don’t get to meet your birth mom every day! Well I was wrong to do that because she ended up biting me on the shoulder to prove that being Forsaken wasn’t contagious! And… that’s her sense of humor, apparently.
I ran out of there, I was bleeding so much, I saw one draenei lady from the Company who I know can do heal-y stuff, but she ignored me! I pass out and, next thing I know, another draenei – a nice one this time, named Ness – is healing my wound and talking me into making Sirie just a letter-mom, not an in-person mom. I was feeling good about this idea!
But then I decided to lock myself up in my own home with Brynia and cookies for a week, just to make sure I wouldn’t become undead around people I love. And Gwen came by at the end of the week and we talked about Sirie, and she really thinks keeping her around in my life is a bad idea, even if it’s just through letters. She says the undead aren’t really the people they used to be anymore, and that maybe my birth mom’s whole deal is that she wants to hurt me…
I really need to talk about mom with dad. There’s a part of me that wonder if undeath really did change her, or if she was always a bit like the woman I’ve met…
Oh! Speaking of warlocks, like me and my birth mom! I found this spell that looks so cool. I’m not sure I’m going to use it anytime soon, because it also looks kind of dangerous, and maybe if I use it some people would go "See? I was right! You're corrupted!". But if I do… it’s going to be so amazing! I can’t wait! I mean! I can’t wait to think about it really responsibly.
Anyway, in just a few days I’m back to saving Outland from breaking apart. Yay!