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x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fiction one final lesson wow classic sunday march 8 2020 one final lesson part 5 6 previous installments one final lesson part 1 one final lesson part 2 one final lesson part 3 one final lesson part 4 everything happened at once i cast the frostbolt well not so much as cast but it escaped straight at the defias mage no longer a puffball it was densely packed iceball that shot straight ahead leaving a long vapor trail behind it the mage jerked her arms upward as it smacked right into her chest a pair of shadows appeared right behind the two defias holding carys and karyn each plunging daggers into an arm and then the neck i could see carys and karyn drop just as i heard the clang of daggers on cobblestone the defias mage hadn t moved bluish white ice spread from where my frostbolt had hit her encasing her in place as much as i wanted to jump up and down and cheer i knew i only had moments come on kit i grunted as i burst out from the bushes the throbbing in my head intensified as bile in my stomach lurched up toward my throat evelyn raised her arms and the arcane burst forth in a blast of icy hell freezing the defias surrounding her she then blinked out of view and i felt another burst of the arcane kill them all the lead defias shouted just before he was bowled over by dad balthan slammed into the defias on the right and they collapsed on the ground get your weapons i heard evelyn shout from somewhere to the left i reached the spot where carys lay still screaming i flipped her over and breathed a sigh of relief when i saw there wasn t a nick on her at all the kaldorei was as good as her word come on sprout i said as i picked her up car wyn carys shouted mama it s car wyn i turned back to karyn just as a defias closed on her dagger out i tried to lunge for karyn but i was too slow my head felt like it had split open and while i managed to keep holding carys i vomited all over the cobblestones a huge dark blur flew through the air and swatted the defias away the gigantic cat that nearly knocked me over in stormwind let out a fierce roar and her jaws clamped down on defias neck i heard a sickening crunch and then another deafening roar from kit my body was shaking uncontrollably as i wiped my mouth with my free hand something dark and red was dripping onto the ground next to me car wyn you re hurt carys cried i nodded unable to speak karyn reached me and grabbed carys then offered an arm to me i grabbed on and tugged in the general direction of the porch and the three of us lurched over there like drunks leaning on each other for support i collapsed on the top step and cradled my head in my hands you re really hurt karyn whispered you re bleeding pretty badly i heard cloth ripping and then felt something pressed to my head i m supposed to be rescuing you not the other way around i croaked i could hear sounds of fighting punctuated with burst of arcane energy but all i could do was moan a little oh light i heard karyn whisper terrified read more posted by redbeard at 11 57 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fiction one final lesson wow classic saturday march 7 2020 one final lesson part 4 6 previous installments one final lesson part 1 one final lesson part 2 one final lesson part 3 the wind whistled through the fields as i strolled fishing rod in hand to go down to the pond kira and jas were out of sight ahead of us but linna was a step ahead of me hopping along as she was telling me she was going to catch a catfish as long as her arm i grinned as i knew she was lousy at fishing but the day was young and we snuck out before mom and dad would notice we reached the edge of the woods and i could hear mom calling something so i stopped and listened come on cardwyn linna called out we re almost there i heard mom call again and i waved linna onward if someone was going to get in trouble let it be me first what was she saying where s my makeup no mom never painted her face i concentrated harder was it wake up but i m already awake linna stomped her foot cardwyn let s go wake up cardwyn please wake up mom s voice again at first it was from across the fields but now it sounded like she was next to me closer than linna the fields and the fishing pole and the impatiently waiting linna all began to fade i smelled iron wait there was something here come on sweetie please don t be dead dead but i m not why would mom think that what was i doing was i in the fields no what was i the door i threw the latch on the door and my eyes shot open read more posted by redbeard at 1 05 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fiction one final lesson wow classic friday march 6 2020 one final lesson part 3 6 previous installments one final lesson part 1 one final lesson part 2 mistress evelyn and balthan wove through the crowded streets with such dexterity that i struggled to keep up let alone follow their conversation the dwarf s presence invigorated mistress evelyn and she seemed younger than when she first arrived at our farm some hours ago i don t know what happened to him mistress evelyn was saying as we reached the bridge to the mage district he used to always be out there in the field working tirelessly to protect the weakest and most vulnerable give a man a little power and ye ll see what he s made of balthan replied judging by his vestments he s not that high up in the church hierarchy i just thought that he d avoided the disease that afflicts the rest of the stormwind nobility there aren t that many that do evelyn if those nobles aren t careful someone s gonna chop em down to size look at ironforge there be just enough dark iron sympathizers out there to cause real trouble for the bronzebeards in spite o all thaurissan did the stormwind nobility is givin some bad apples an excuse out there to rob the tavern so to speak and nobody has their watchful eye on the cask ah balthan i ve missed your way with words evelyn paused on the bridge to hug the dwarf who looked embarrassed i ve missed ye too evelyn where ve ye been i was hoping to see ye when i was last in theramore retired i was caught up in the third war when i was visiting home and he came there but aside from that i ve taught quite a few of the children in eastern elwynn and lakeshire over the years i wanted no more part in fighting caused by pride and stupidity the dwarf nodded can t as say as i blame ye on that so i ve been teaching all i can to try to rectify the stupidity part and also keep in touch with daryn and mona i felt there was an insult in there somewhere but i wasn t exactly sure how ve they been balthan asked really good particularly given how things played out at the end daryn is still a bit bitter but mona has always been a hard read this business might cause real problems for her speakin o stupidity balthan said snapping his fingers i ve been daft i know someone who can help us out she manages to get herself in all sorts o trouble bein in places she ain t supposed to but she said she was gonna be here for another few weeks balthan i ve seen your so called friends before how do i know she s reliable reliable enough for me to trust her with running a message up to a friend in southshore from booty bay when i got here i went to the pig n whistle and sure enough the reply was waiting for me balthan turned back in the direction of the central part of stormwind lemme leave her a note and she ll catch up with us read more posted by redbeard at 2 32 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fiction one final lesson wow classic thursday march 5 2020 one final lesson part 2 6 previous installments one final lesson part 1 traveling through the portal was one thing first we were in our barn and then we stepped into a long room with stone walls and filled with bookshelves but the sensation of moving was akin to a wave washing over me stripping away all weariness and stress ah mistress evelyn said that rush never gets old i felt around to be certain i still had my clothing and just as i breathed a sigh of relief that i wasn t naked i realized we weren t alone men and women in various colored robes milled about the room some reading others talking in small groups and some few surrounded by larger numbers of people all seemed to ignore the fact that two disheveled women one old one young just popped into their midst evelyn tugged at my sleeve once more let s move she said it s not polite to block the portal i took a step or two forward glanced behind me and nearly tripped over myself a huge ring of metal with glowing runes carved in it at least 10 feet high stood behind me within the ring was a swirling mist of green brown and white obscuring anything else standing beside the ring was a woman in robes and holding an ornate staff watching welcome to stormwind she said in a carefully neutral tone please clear the portal for other arrivals thank you evelyn replied and yanked at my sleeve a bit harder this time try not to look like you were living out in the hinterlands she whispered to me i gulped and nodded just follow me she said a bit louder i know the way we walked toward the far end of the room where another portal awaited to my right staring at a bookshelf stood an impossibly tall woman wearing a blue black and gray robe with gold trim my head barely came up to her chest but what drew my attention were the long vertical ears that poked out from above her golden hair and angular face she glanced our way and did a double take evelyn she cried crossing the distance between us in two long steps and embraced mistress evelyn it s been years how have you been elsharin evelyn replied with a smile my bones complain a bit more but the years since we last met have been too long i would imagine elsharin replied she spoke in an accent i d never heard before i can see you re in a hurry so i won t keep you she then turned to me her grin turning mischievous is this your apprentice i thought you d retired i did retire but i do still teach non arcane subject matter for the most part cardwyn here is the daughter of friends i m sure she is greetings to you cardwyn she added folding her hands together in a formal manner i mimicked her action greetings to you elsharin her smile grew even wider and nodded as if i d passed some test i m certain we ll see you two around here again please do stop by when you re finished with your business here we ve a lot of catching up to do and i d love to get to know young cardwyn better read more posted by redbeard at 4 13 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fiction one final lesson wow classic wednesday march 4 2020 one final lesson part 1 6 this is a rarity for pc an actual work of short fiction a month or two before i thought about writing this post i pondered character motivation and backstory for my toons az would be a really tough nut to crack given all sorts of contradicting issues regarding the rogue life with darnassian society but i thought there was something i could write about for cardwyn when the time came to actually start writing i thought it would be a short piece in the same vein as my sole other work of fiction on the blog but card had her own thoughts on the matter a month and a half and waaaay too many words later this is the result okay part of the result rather than do a dump of the entire story i decided to break it up into six parts so that any reader wouldn t be confronted with a wall of text i also decided i was going to finish the entire story before posting because i wanted to make sure i was going to see this through to the end i inserted breaks because well it d likely overwhelm the blog otherwise some final notes this is a work of fiction any resemblance to any people living or dead is purely coincidental any characters created by blizzard for wow classic remain their property kitwynn appears courtesy of tome of the ancient this work of fiction uses wow classic as the reference point no other version of wow this was written by redbeard of parallel context 2020 one final lesson mom looked out the window into the fields her jaw set her hands kept up their steady pace kneading the dough with only a slight tremor betraying their emotion fold turn fold turn grab a scant handful of flour and dust the dough before folding once more i always wondered how she could keep up this work for what seemed like hours on end as baking day wore me out by noon we could use the gold mom i began her eyes flicked back to me for a moment silencing me before returning to the wheat growing beyond the fence i turned back to the oven inserted the long wooden paddle and nudged a rapidly browning loaf away from the coals tired or not mom would make me turn over the manure in the yard this afternoon if i burned one it s not like i was joining the army ah yes the army she spat go and see the world meet people and get turned into a ghoul or worse my knuckles turned white as i clenched the handle she didn t need to bring up uncle aeron this early in the argument where is the army anyway she continued you d think that they d be back home now especially since the plague is now some someone else s problem i noted that her someone else s problem conveniently left out just whose problem the plague was but mom i said i m talking about our home with the army not here we need all the help we can get did you see those people the other day even dad was shaken last night and kira says i know what your sister says i m talking about our home too she tore her gaze away from the window to set the finished loaf to one side covering it with a damp cloth before grabbing another wad of dough from the large bowl she dusted the dough with flour and began kneading did evelyn put you up to this she continued no mom i came up with it on my own well that was only partially true and we both knew it mistress evelyn talked about lordaeron and the gleaming towers of dalaran whenever she would visit and that the beauty of dalaran put the mage tower in stormwind to shame her faded tirisfal accent made her stories more believable as well has her lessons more bearable a touch of the exotic in a world of crops food family and neighbors the occasional trip to goldshire was a poor substitute mom grunted as she continued to knead you can ask her mom she ll be here this evening if anything mistress evelyn would prefer i do something else entirely very few outsiders ever joined the kirin tor you know evelyn frequently said when i was younger but if you applied yourself to your studies cardwyn i would sponsor you i was skeptical as to how arithmetic and grammar would help me join the most powerful mages in all of azeroth but i kept those misgivings to myself hmmpf mom attacked the dough with a vigor that said we ll see about that despite her 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