(2024-12-20) Mysterious Greatfather Winter Tae

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Author:	Disknight
Summary:	Taeavon meets with Sandy to give him his Winter's Veil gift.
Rating:	T for Teen

Gausanders is sitting at a bench, reading a book on holy magic. His long hair floats around his shoulders, carried by a light breeze. He seems lost in thought.

Taeavon cautiously makes his way into the beer garden of the Hero's Welcome. He spots Sandy sitting on the far bench and he gives a little wave, "Oh, hello. Are you Gausanders Spellbond by chance?"

Gausanders is startled by the voice. He looks up at the elf in a slight panic. "Um… y- yes!" Spotting the tabard, his shoulders lower and tensions seem to leave his body. "You are?"

[Taeavon]: Oh! Right, sorry. I'm Taeavon Noonshade. I signed up for the, uh, Greatfather Winter thing and I drew your name. *he chuckles nervously and scratches the back of his neck.*

Gausanders smiles at Taeavon. "Oh! Nice to meet you." He sits up straighter, closing his book and resting it face up on the table. He awaits the gift rather impatiently.

Taeavon realizes he's waiting and he hurries to grab something out from his bag, "Right. Now where did I… Aha! Here." He hands a fancy purple envelop to Sandy. "Oh, and umm it's nice to meet you too."

Gausanders 's excitement lowers just a little bit as he spots an envelope, but his curiosity wins him over regardless. "Come sit with me!" Sandy says, picking up the envelope and carefully opening it.

[Taeavon]: Oh, yeah sure. *Tae jogs over to take a seat next to him.*

Inside the envelope is a pair of tickets to see the Dalaran Symphony Orchestra in concert.

[Gausanders]: Ooooh! I heard great things about them!
Gausanders holds them tightly in his hands. "I'm sure my girlfriend, Gwen will be so excited about those!"

[Taeavon]: Yeah! They're great! I go and see them as often as I can! I heard that you had a friend who moved to the city recently so I thought it might be a nice thing to go do with them. *Tae smiles.*

Gausanders 's eyes widen. "Oh really? I mean I moved here pretty recently! But my girlfriend's been here for a while. She's a mage here!" He chuckles.

[Taeavon]: Yeah, I know. My mother mentioned her before. She's the new teleportation expert right?

[Gausanders]: Oh! Right, recently for an elf, maybe! *He beams.* Yes, she managed to make teleportations between Outland and Azeroth possible again. *He smiles proudly. Carefully, Sandy places the tickets in his prayer book.* Thank you for those, I appreciate it!

[Taeavon]: No problem! I'm glad you like them. *Tae smiles. He sits there a little awkwardly. He feels like it's rude to leave, but he's not quite sure what else to say.*

Gausanders picks up on the awkwardness and begins feeling it too. He looks around for a topic of conversation. "I uh… Do you… read?"

[Taeavon]: Yeah! I read all sorts of stuff! I'm lucky the library here has got so many books. *Tae chuckles. The awkwardness and unease in his voice and posture melt away instantly.*

[Gausanders]: What do you like? Uh… *He thinks about what this stranger may like.* Magic books? Military ones? Romance novels?

[Taeavon]: A bit of everything really. I try to stay up to date on magic research even though I don't practice much anymore. Other than that I've read basically every book there is on zoology plus a bunch of others on some other topics and I read lots of novels and stuff too.

[Gausanders]: Nice! I haven't read as much. I'm sure you're full of fun facts.

[Taeavon]: Yeah, I get that a lot. *He chuckles.* I've spent the last decade or two compiling notes to try and publish something of my own sometime. Now that the city is up in Northrend I think it's the perfect chance to write something on the ecosystems here. After that I want to travel to Kalimdor and do the same thing there.

[Gausanders]: There aren't books like that in Kalimdor already? *Sandy looks at him curiously.* And those sound great! All the ways the ecosystems have changed here in the last few… centuries, maybe? That sounds interesting!

[Taeavon]: There's a few, but they're all in Darnassian and none are as detailed as I'd like. I guess since the night elves were immortal for so long they didn't feel they needed to write down things as much. They all just remember it.

[Gausanders]: Ah! Makes sense. Even if things changed around them, that didn't matter. They could just say… something like… "Oh hey, remember Watertors?" "Yeah." "Feels like last week."
[Gausanders]: Watertors are the aquatic, water ancestors of the raptors I just made up.

Taeavon chuckles a little, "I'm not sure I've ever heard of anything like that."

[Gausanders]: I know, I just needed to invent an animal the kaldorei could have met before. *He smiles.*

[Taeavon]: I get that. I bet there's just so much knowledge hidden in the Cenarion Circle. They have to know more about the world than anyone.

Gausanders looks up to the sky. "Hmm, that's true! I never thought about that." He whispers. "So much to learn about the watertors…"

Taeavon laughs again, "I don't know why more people don't put two and two together though. If we want to do proper research on the natural world, what better perspective is there than a druid? Heck, they even turn into animals sometimes. No one is beating that."

[Gausanders]: Yeah! There's so much to learn from them. Probably from shaman, too. They can turn into wolves, you know?

[Taeavon]: Oh, that's true. *Tae looks up in thought.* I wonder if that might be another perspective. Listening to the spirits of the world and stuff…

Gausanders nods. "Probably." He is being helpful and smart. He succeeded in his mission. Accidentally.

[Taeavon]: I'll have to keep that in mind. Thanks. *Tae smiles.*

[Gausanders]: No problem! I'm happy to have helped!
Gausanders listens to the bell ringing. "Oh, I should probably get going! Thank you again for the tickets. Maybe I'll see you at the concert?" He beams.

[Taeavon]: For sure! *Tae stands up.* And yeah! I'll try and be there too.

[Gausanders]: Great! I'm excited to see you there, Taeavon! *He gets up as well, his prosthetic leg making a slight noise as he does. He picks up his book.*

[Taeavon]: See you then!

[Gausanders]: See you!