(2023-11-27) Chapter X: Scarlet Subterfuge, Part 4 (Cobalt Blade)

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Author:	OzmaAsimov
Summary:	The Cobalt Blade finish their infiltration of the Scarlet Monastery, facing down Scarlet Commander Leswheat and High Inquisitor Blacklocke to claim the last two vials of holy water needed for the Elixir of Beginnings.
Rating:	T for Teen

Arc: The Cobalt Blade

Tadget greets Zaara with a hearty hello!

[Zaara]: Hello!

[Tadget]: I like your pretty zhevragoat.

Vesyllah nods…moodily.

[Zaara]: Thank you! She like you also.

[Vesyllah]: What is that?

[Zaara]: Talbuk!

[Tadget]: She does? How do you know?

Thalstan rides up on his ram.

Tadget salutes Thalstan with respect.

[Tadget]: Sir.

[Thalstan]: Mayhem!

[Zaara]: I know because she is not trampling you. She is war talbuk, very fierce.

Vesyllah doesn't seem to mind (or possibly notice) a rather larger spider crawling across her feet.

[Tadget]: That's a good metric, certainly

[Vesyllah]: Looks useful in a fight.

Zaara nods solemnly and pats the talbuk's neck. The animal does not appear particularly warlike. It swishes its tail and eyes Thalstan's ram with interest.

[Tadget]: Watch out for the spider there, Vengeance.

Vesyllah looks down. "Oh. Don't worry. That's just Tadget."

[Tadget]: I beg your @#$%ing pardon?

Vesyllah blinks at the gnomish Tadget as if confused.

Thalstan's ram tosses its head proudly.

[Zaara]: … oh sorry, we do not call you Tadget?

Zaara can't see the multiple Tadgets present.

[Vesyllah]: I named her after the deadliest thing I know.

[Tadget]: Excuse you, there is only one Tadg— Oh. Well that's kind of… whatever. *Her ears turn red and she looks at a thing over there somewhere.*

Thalstan chuckles at Vesyllah.

[Zaara]: … there is more than one Tadget?

[Tadget]: I guess she named a spider after me.

Thalstan dismounts his ram, and pats it as he looks around at the team.

[Thalstan]: Looks like we're all 'ere. Ready ta get through some tighter security?

[Tadget]: Ho boy.

[Thalstan]: We ought ta be able ta get in with our intel, but it migh' be a tough fight inside.

Zaara thanks Arthur.

Vesyllah nods.

Vesyllah bows her head reverently to Arthur as she accepts the Gift of Water. "Shaha lor'ma dula Luvas'alith."

[Thalstan]: Brother Durham's info ought ta be useful. We'll have that vial in no time.

Tadget thanks Arthur.

[Vesyllah]: So, we have to hope both our targets are in the cathedral?

[Thalstan]: We've got two o' them already, yes? Jus' the two more.

Thalstan nods at Vesyllah.

[Thalstan]: Tha's the place we've yet ta infiltrate.

[Vesyllah]: Because I don't want to have to scour this entire place again.

[Tadget]: Such a torquin' grouch.

[Vesyllah]: Me?

Scarlet Disciple says: The Scarlet Crusade shall smite the wicked and drive evil from these lands!

Scarlet Augur says: The Scarlet Crusade shall smite the wicked and drive evil from these lands!

[Tadget]: You.

Scarlet Sentry attempts to run away in fear!

Vesyllah just nods and doesn't argue the point.

Scarlet Disciple says: The light condemns all who harbor evil. Now you will die!

Scarlet Disciple attempts to run away in fear!

[Tadget]: Also these guys.

[Tadget]: Scarlets in general.

[Thalstan]: This is our door.

[Vesyllah]: It's alright. We've cured them of their grouchiness.

[Thalstan]: Tha's one way ta cure, I s'pose.

[Tadget]: Want I should cure Ves?

Thalstan laughs.

Tadget cackles maniacally at the situation.

[Vesyllah]: Not today.

[Thalstan]: No' that cure, no' for Ves.

[Thalstan]: Alrigh', we're goin' ta have ta be careful movin' in. These folks are bound ta be their top fighters.

[Tadget]: Hehe that reminds me of one of my favorite ways to get information from enemies…

Scarlet Defender attempts to run away in fear!

[Tadget]: I'd hold up bandages and say "I can make the pain stop…"

[Vesyllah]: Oh?

Vesyllah smirks.

[Tadget]: And they'd tell me the thing and then I'd kill em. Hehe.

Thalstan raises an eyebrow at Tadget.

Zaara blinks.

[Tadget]: What.

[Vesyllah]: She didn't lie.

[Arthur]: She didn't lie!

[Tadget]: I did not!

[Tadget]: Thank you, you get it.

Scarlet Defender attempts to run away in fear!

Scarlet Myrmidon goes into a frenzy!

[Thalstan]: Le's not use that strategy on these ones, alrigh'?

Scarlet Sorcerer attempts to run away in fear!

[Thalstan]: I thought fer sure this fella's friends would come runnin' with him.

[Tadget]: Real tight bunch.

[Thalstan]: Guess they sent him alone ta investigate.

[Zaara]: Perhaps he is not a good friend.

Tadget giggles at Zaara.

[Zaara]: This is a lesson of friendship.

Scarlet Sorcerer says: The light condemns all who harbor evil. Now you will die!

Scarlet Sorcerer says: There is no escape for you. The Crusade shall destroy all who carry the scourge's taint.

[Tadget]: I would totally go with all of you if you went to investigate.

Scarlet Sorcerer attempts to run away in fear!

[Zaara]: Be a good friend or you will die.

[Thalstan]: I'm jus' goin' ta shoot an arrow, so yer good back here.

[Tadget]: Actually you should just send me to investigate, in cases like that.

[Tadget]: 'Cause they won't even see me.

[Thalstan]: Tha's right, yer good at tha' sort o' thing.

Scarlet Defender attempts to run away in fear!

[Tadget]: Hehehe, I remember the day I got SO mad at my 7th Legion captain for using an eye of Kilrogg.

[Thalstan]: I think we're good with 'kill all the guards' today, though.

[Tadget]: Like, "I'M RIGHT HERE."

[Thalstan]: Oh, dang, tha' is a slap in the face by warlock.

[Tadget]: Everyone called me Eye of Tyrrell for a while after that.

Scarlet Myrmidon goes into a frenzy!

[Tadget]: Cause that was my captain's name.

[Zaara]: A warlock slapped your face?!

[Thalstan]: Eye of Tyrrell, heh.

[Tadget]: He proverbially slapped my face.

[Tadget]: It's a metaphor.

Zaara frowns.

[Tadget]: It means a huge insult.

[Zaara]: A warlock huge insult you?!

[Tadget]: Like sending an Eye of Kilrogg instead of your dang scout.

[Tadget]: Yes, he huge insulted me.

Zaara shakes her head disapprovingly.

[Thalstan]: An eye of Kilrogg is like… a… demon…? *Thal trails off uncertainly*

[Arthur]: Wait, didn't he get involved in that noble seat business?

[Thalstan]: Noble seat business?

[Tadget]: Like a demon eye — *blinks at Arthur* Yeah he did!

[Tadget]: Didn't know you followed politics.

[Arthur]: I read his essay about trusting warlocks.

[Tadget]: Oh yeah?

[Tadget]: Was it good? I hate reading.

Arthur smiles. "It was good."

[Tadget]: I'll tell him next time I see him and pretend I read it.

[Thalstan]: What'd I miss? He wrote a novel?

[Tadget]: An essay.

[Arthur]: I'll give you the highlights.

[Tadget]: Which is like a novel but shorter and boring.

Tadget thanks Arthur.

[Thalstan]: Ah. *Thal clearly finds this less interesting than adventure romance, but okay.* Wha' was it about, Art?

[Vesyllah]: Tyrrell. He's the one that started W.E.B., right?

[Thalstan]: W.E.B.?

Tadget looks similarly clueless.

[Thalstan]: I feel like I missed a whole noble essay warlock boat 'ere.

[Tadget]: Not missing much.

[Tadget]: Nobles are boring. Warlocks not as much, but he managed it.

[Thalstan]: Heh, but he mus' be kind o' interestin'. Yer the Eye of Tyrrell, after all.

[Tadget]: I didn't even realize he was a noble until like, really recently. Explains a lot about his unusual amount of boring.

Vesyllah spells it out: "W - E - B. The Warlock Ethics Bureau."

[Tadget]: Oh my GOD he found a way to make it boring.

[Thalstan]: Warlock Ethics. *Thal puzzles at that for a bit* I s'pose warlocks are usually the villains, in th' books.

[Vesyllah]: It's a pretty smart idea. Helps to keep warlocks in line and more in the public eye.

[Thalstan]: This guy's a villain fer sure.

[Arthur]: and to highlight what a warlock in control can do!

[Tadget]: Yeah, warlocks can do some pretty helpful crap.

[Vesyllah]: I suppose that, too.

[Thalstan]: Hm. I'd expect so, yes.

[Tadget]: My favorite is the summoning thing.

[Thalstan]: I've no' been summoned before. I reckon you have?

[Arthur]: there's a lot of doomed to fail stories out there. like yes it's dark. but still!

[Tadget]: I think it's too early to say every warlock is doomed.

Thalstan nods at Art.

[Thalstan]: Let's move in a bit.

[Tadget]: My brother though, definitely is.

[Tadget]: Super doomed.

[Thalstan]: Oh, I'm sorry ta hear it.

[Tadget]: I'm not.

[Tadget]: I'm the one gonna kill him.

Zaara blinks.

[Thalstan]: Then… I'm not either? *Thal looks at Tadget, puzzled.*

[Tadget]: He's the absolute worst.

[Tadget]: He left me for dead one time and tried to steal my girlfriend.

[Thalstan]: No' like yer Captain, who is… great, but also borin'?

[Thalstan]: Art, you met this Tyrrell fellow before, or jus' read his essay so far?

Scarlet Myrmidon goes into a frenzy!

[Tadget]: You thinkin about using him as a connection to get us all into the Legion, sir?

Scarlet Myrmidon goes into a frenzy!

[Tadget]: I bet I could sweet talk him into putting in a good word for us. Bat my eyes a little. He's softer than you'd think.

[Thalstan]: Tha's a goal o' ours, right? One day?

[Tadget]: Yep.

[Tadget]: I think we'd make an amazing 7th Legion expeditionary unit.

[Thalstan]: Maybe it's not a bad idea fer us to get on yer contacts' good sides.

[Tadget]: True, true.

[Tadget]: I'll tell him Art read his stupid essay. I mean his great very interesting essay.

Scarlet Defender attempts to run away in fear!

[Vesyllah]: I'm not sure if the Legion has a place for me. Ference was mostly understanding about my mission. Somehow I doubt the military would be so accommodating.

[Tadget]: What's your mission again?

[Zaara]: To punish in the name of the moon!

[Vesyllah]: Something like that.

[Tadget]: Can't you punish the 7th Legion's enemies in the name of the moon?

[Vesyllah]: I can. But what happens when I am called to track down and inflict penance on someone the 7th Legion has no interest in?

[Tadget]: Called on by who?

[Vesyllah]: Elune.

[Thalstan]: Erryone's got hobbies. Missions. Tha' sort o' thing.

[Vesyllah]: More specifically, the Night Warrior.

[Tadget]: Oh uh, you guys have tea on the regular or what?

[Vesyllah]: I commune with her. Sometimes she communicates her wishes to me.

[Vesyllah]: This is your penance!

Scarlet Sorcerer attempts to run away in fear!

[Thalstan]: Seems like a warlock fella might be understandin' about a Night Warrior thing. Darkness an' all that?

Scarlet Myrmidon goes into a frenzy!

[Tadget]: Well I guess if by the time we get ready for the absolute best of the best of the best, if you still think the voices in your head are more important than all of us, then you can torque off and we'll find some other sexy elf. There are plenty of you.

[Thalstan]: Let's get down to th' base of these stairs, a little tight up there,

[Thalstan]: I'll bring the guards down.

[Tadget]: Yes sir!

Vesyllah rolls her eyes. "Best you be prepared, then. I will always believe Elune is more important than any of us, especially myself."

[Tadget]: Kay.

[Tadget]: You do you.

[Tadget]: I think I'll stick with my friends.

[Thalstan]: Well, let's worry about tomorrow tomorrow. Today, we still got ta make the Elixir o' Beginnin's.

[Vesyllah]: That doesn't mean I don't think highly of you. I do.

[Tadget]: Wow, your high thoughts will help so much when I'm murdering old gods or whatever.

[Thalstan]: I think we got enough room up here now.

[Thalstan]: Reckon there's any more old gods fer us ta kill 'round Azeroth?

[Tadget]: Yep. Three more.

[Thalstan]: Nice. Let's see how many we can bag.

[Zaara]: Yes. The earth whispers.

[Tadget]: According to the myths anyway.

[Vesyllah]: And we need to make sure the Seed doesn't wake them up.

[Tadget]: Oh thats' not creepy at all, Booty.

[Arthur]: what does it say?

[Tadget]: Are we sure we wanna know, Trouble?

[Zaara]: Muttering and strange dreams. You should not know.

[Vesyllah]: I do.

[Arthur]: how do you decide you don't want to know?

[Tadget]: The old god we fought ate a bunch of us.

[Thalstan]: What? Ate?

[Tadget]: Yep.

[Tadget]: Luckily it has a pretty slow digestion process.

[Tadget]: It wasn't fun though. Glad I smelled too bad to eat or whatever.

[Tadget]: I wonder though about those guys.

[Thalstan]: Good news fer us. Bad news fer th' Old God yeh killed.

[Tadget]: Like, if you get eaten by an old god… even if you get back out again…

[Tadget]: are you like, the same?

[Tadget]: I sorta wish it had eaten me, so I could see.

[Thalstan]: I do no' know th' answer ta that one.

[Thalstan]: Let's slip through the fountain here, clear 'em out more before we get to th' big door.

[Vesyllah]: This is your penance!

[Tadget]: I think this is the spot where my husband first said a very obscene thing to me *she says wistfully*

Thalstan laughs.

[Thalstan]: Obscene in a romantic way?

[Tadget]: I'm not sure my definition of romantic matches yours, sir.

[Thalstan]: What's yer definition o' romantic?

[Tadget]: Heists, murder, et cetera.

[Tadget]: But we'd just been friends up to that point. Or uh, co murderers? So it was really shocking! For him to suddenly say like, a sex thing.

[Tadget]: And it was right on those steps, I remember.

[Tadget]: He loves the architecture here.

[Thalstan]: Well, at least it's good memories!

[Tadget]: Totally.

[Tadget]: I hope he ambushes me soon!

Zaara laughs.

[Thalstan]: Heists can be romantic, I think. I'm no' sure on murders, for meself.

[Tadget]: He carved our initials into a vault in the Dark Iron city. Now THAT's romantic.

[Tadget]: We had to murder SO many Dark Irons to get there, hehe.

[Tadget]: I should focus. Just… a lotta memories here.

[Thalstan]: I can tell. Glad they're good ones. Anybody else been here before a'tall?

[Tadget]: Art seems the most likely, it's kinda humany business.

[Arthur]: not since I was a baby.

Scarlet Centurion attempts to run away in fear!

Thalstan nods. "No' much call for… what?"

[Tadget]: You were here as a BABY??

[Tadget]: Okay this I gotta hear.

[Zaara]: Me also!

[Zaara]: Just kidding.

Tadget laughs at Zaara.

Vesyllah smirks.

[Tadget]: You gotta hear it because… hahaha nice.

[Arthur]: I was born, my parents answered an urgent call to the Sons of Lothar. My father's sister was given care of me.

[Thalstan]: An' she was a Scarlet?

[Arthur]: she was…you know those people who are more devout than anyone else?

[Arthur]: and how they believe devotion is the keystone of virtue?

[Tadget]: Did… Did Ference pick us based on our backstories too? Because… sheesh!

[Thalstan]: Mm, I think I know what yeh mean.

[Tadget]: So did your parents bite it on Outland or what?

[Arthur]: SO. The more demonstrably devout you are, the better you are. That's what she thought.

[Tadget]: Ugh.

[Arthur]: And I don't know. I suspect so.

[Arthur]: Wouldn't they have come back?

[Vesyllah]: She felt it necessary to demonstrate her devotion? To whom?

[Tadget]: I'unno.

Thalstan nods at Arthur. "I expect so, yes. But how'd yeh end up in Stormwind and no' here?"

[Zaara]: Not to Trouble.

[Arthur]: if you asked her? the purity of the light.

[Tadget]: Ugh.

[Arthur]: and I wound up in Stormwind because it was far from here.

[Tadget]: Those people drive me crazy, no offense to your kin.

[Tadget]: Um sorry if you are super religious.

[Zaara]: This place smells very unwell.

Thalstan peeks through the door. "Whoa, that's a lot of guards. Let's just hang back here and lure 'em to us."

[Arthur]: I agree.

[Vesyllah]: I thought the Light was just…the Light. Not a being.

[Tadget]: Oh it is very unwell, I assure you, Booty.

[Arthur]: it is.

Zaara makes a face.

[Thalstan]: I'm glad yeh ended up in Stormwind, and then with us, Art.

Arthur shrugs. "So it's in the interpretation, sometimes."

[Tadget]: The Light is… yeah it's like… a force, far as I can tell. Murlocs can use it.

[Tadget]: Makes about as much sense to me as arcane stuff; I can't use either.

[Thalstan]: Maybe one day we'll venture ta Outland, and we can find out what happened wi' yer folks.

[Tadget]: My brother said I could learn to use the fel if I wanted but I would rather eat my own fingers than do the same thing as him.

[Vesyllah]: Faith for the sake of proving one's own virtue sounds nonsensical to me.

Scarlet Monk attempts to run away in fear!

[Tadget]: I agree with Vengeance for once.

Scarlet Champion attempts to run away in fear!

[Arthur]: It's different if there's someone who can correct you when you're wrong.

[Tadget]: Who corrected you?

Tadget makes this sound a bit like "who hurt you"

The Cobalt Blade approaches the Scarlet Cathedral.

High Inquisitor Blacklocke yells: It seems the Cobalt Blade is at our doorstep. Crusaders, give these blasphemers a proper welcome!

[Zaara]: Oh! That is us!

Zaara beams.

[Tadget]: Oh hey, a welcoming party!

[Arthur]: We're expected!

Tadget poisons her blades.

Scarlet Crusaders pour out from the cathedral as the Cobat Blade fights their way in.

[Vesyllah]: I suppose we did make a splash last time we were here.

[Tadget]: I got my party favors ready. *She holds up the dripping daggers*

Thalstan raises his sword and shield. "We'll accept tha' proper welcome an' then some."

[Tadget]: They have no idea who they're dealing with, do they.

[Thalstan]: Evidently no'.

[Tadget]: Which is weird, cause they said Cobalt Blade.

[Tadget]: Like, real loud.

[Vesyllah]: Being underestimated is getting a bit tiresome, isn't it?

[Tadget]: Right?

[Thalstan]: One day we'll be overestimated, an' that will be a rough day.

[Tadget]: Everybody thinks they're the special one we're not gonna puree and spread on toast.

[Zaara]: Now I want toast.

[Tadget]: Me too.

[Tadget]: I'll make you some later, Booty.

[Zaara]: Thank you.

[Tadget]: Quick question though, can you smell if bread has been dropped on the floor?

[Zaara]: Yes. The earth will tell me.

[Tadget]: Noted.

Zaara frowns sternly.

Scarlet Champion attempts to run away in fear!

[Vesyllah]: Are the elements always talking to you? Or do you choose when to commune with them?

[Zaara]: I will say, 'Earth, why are you on this toast?' and it will say, 'From the floor, I come.'

[Tadget]: Oh man, that'd suck if it's ALL the time.

Scarlet Abbot goes into a frenzy!

[Zaara]: I hear them always, but it is as if —

Zaara considers.

Scarlet Monk attempts to run away in fear!

[Zaara]: It is as if you are in a room with many people talking but you are just humming and thinking. You can stop to listen to some of them if you want, or sometimes they will talk to you directly.

[Zaara]: But not always. There is always conversation, but not with you all the time.

[Tadget]: So it's like being at a really big, boring party.

[Thalstan]: Tha' actually sounds real cozy.

[Zaara]: Yes but not boring.

[Zaara]: A cozy! Yes, a cozy party.

[Tadget]: Rocks seem like they would be boring.

[Zaara]: Rocks have seen so much! Even your Old Gods.

[Thalstan]: Reminds me of a peaceful, busy tavern.

[Tadget]: Oh man, I just felt my dad turn in his grave when I said that.

[Tadget]: Oh yeah, the Old Gods are all down there, huh.

[Tadget]: Must be some pretty upset rocks.

Scarlet Centurion attempts to run away in fear!

[Zaara]: Rocks know all the things that live in the deep darks.

[Tadget]: Like troggs.

[Zaara]: Yes.

[Tadget]: I am just gonna say it, the deep darks are not my fave.

[Thalstan]: Deep darks can be a good place, when there's no Old Gods.

[Tadget]: You're such a dwarf.

[Thalstan]: I like bein' under th' earth.

Thalstan smiles proudly, patting his beard. He is such a dwarf.

[Tadget]: That's because you're part rock.

[Tadget]: Mostly the skull area.

Thalstan laughs.

[Thalstan]: I s'pose bein' surrounded by rock is more comf'table fer me than others.

[Tadget]: I like being surrounded by soldiers.

[Thalstan]: Because yer skull area is made of soldier?

[Tadget]: Yes.

[Tadget]: I got a bad case of soldierskull.

[Vesyllah]: I am vengeance!

Scarlet Chaplain attempts to run away in fear!

[Tadget]: I am mayhem!

[Thalstan]: I am valor!

Scarlet Centurion attempts to run away in fear!

[Zaara]: Ah! The water!

[Tadget]: You hear it?

[Zaara]: It sings.

[Tadget]: I guess we're in the right place then.

Zaara points in the direction of the altar and the doors behind it.

[Vesyllah]: This is your penance!

Scarlet Wizard attempts to run away in fear!

[Zaara]: This is lightning!

Scarlet Monk attempts to run away in fear!

[Tadget]: I still think "Eat a storm!" was your best one, Booty.

[Zaara]: Eat a storm? Okay.

[Tadget]: Very badass.

[Zaara]: EAT A STORM!

[Tadget]: YEAH!

Scarlet Commander Leswheat prays solemnly while the battle goes on around him.

[Thalstan]: We've checked everywherre else, reckon we've got to check this fella at the altar. Where yeh heard the water, right?

High Inquisitor Blacklocke yells: Commander Leswheat, end these heretics!

[Thalstan]: Sir, we're jus' here for…. aw, rats.

[Tadget]: We are not here for rats.

Scarlet Commander Leswheat stands and draws his weapon.

Tadget threatens Scarlet Commander Leswheat with the wrath of doom.

[Vesyllah]: Suffer the pain you have inflicted!

High Inquisitor Blacklocke yells: You cannot win. The Light is with me!

High Inquisitor Blacklocke yells: Leswheat has fallen? You shall pay for this treachery!
[Tadget]: I'm not sure you understand what 'treachery' means, lady.

[Thalstan]: We were pretty straightforward.

Blacklocke calls upon the Light and resurrects Leswheat to fight on.

[Tadget]: Oh great.

[Tadget]: It's so rude when they resurrect each other.

The battle rages, but ultimately the Cobalt Blade stands victorious over the bodies of High Inquisitor Blacklocke and Scarlet Commander Leswheat.

Tadget cheers!

[Vesyllah]: Maybe she figured out there were Scarlets helping us.

[Tadget]: So why don't they pay for the treachery and not us?

[Tadget]: Anyway, they're both super dead now, so.

Tadget wipes off her blade.

[Thalstan]: I s'pose that's a bit treacherous, but we were pretty clear about comin' in here attacking.

[Thalstan]: Zaara, you see the water round here anywhere?

[Zaara]: I do not!

[Zaara]: But I hear it…

[Thalstan]: I… um… right.

Both the Scarlet Commander and the High Inquisitor bear belt pouches like those found on Judean and the Houndmaster.

Tadget carves her initials into the stone.

Vesyllah kneels down.

Zaara moves carefully toward the bodies and kneels down. She reaches for the belt pouches as confidently as if sighted, and takes out first one, then the other vial.

[Zaara]: Do you hear…?

Vesyllah shakes her head. "I just hear a little sloshing."

Zaara cants her head, her expression blissful.

[Thalstan]: Wish I could, Booty.

[Zaara]: I wish this for you also.

[Tadget]: That's a special little treat just for you.

Zaara rises to her feet. Hooves.

Tadget gently pats Zaara.

Vesyllah peers at the carved initials and snort-chuckles.

[Thalstan]: We'll need ta get this back to Brother Durham, then, to finish the elixir?

[Tadget]: Ya know, I've had the same initials for my past three aliases. Makes vandalsm a bit simpler.

[Vesyllah]: And then…we just have to figure out where the actual Seed is.

[Thalstan]: Tha' is the missing piece, fer sure.

[Tadget]: So we done here then?

[Thalstan]: Think so. Should we ride back, or hearth an' meet up?

[Vesyllah]: Seems like it. I don't hear anyone rushing to avenge the dead.

[Tadget]: Where we meeting up?

[Vesyllah]: Given the tight security outside, hearthstones might be best.

[Thalstan]: Southshore, for Brother Durham.

[Arthur]: Portal to Theramore?

[Tadget]: That'd be great!

[Arthur]: oh shoot.

[Tadget]: Or Ironforge.

[Arthur]: I don't have portal runes!

Zaara laughs at Arthur.

Tadget laughs.

[Arthur]: I'm going to fix that immediately. GOSH.

[Zaara]: Hearthstones! We make our ways to Southshore.

[Thalstan]: See you later, Cobalt Blade! Good work today!