“ you’re the only person here i trust. we need to stick together, watch each other’s backs. just because everything’s changed, doesn’t mean we have to, too. ” / from illidan!
If she were to be truthful, Azeroth had long since become foreign to her. The world she had known as kaldorei had been irrevocably changed by her queen's own hand, the shape of the land as altered as that of Azshara's sacrificed subjects. She had not left the ocean floor and the greatness of Nazjatar until sent to spy on him; and then came the switching sides that led her to Outland, death that led her beyond.
When Vashj considers their homeworld, she finds there is little attachment left for it. She cares not for the place; she cares not for the races that came to inhabit it. Even those who held her allegiance in the past, deep beneath the seas, elicit no sympathy from her heart; those least of all, when she thinks of Azshara.
But he still cares — and if it is enough for her to forsake her place in death, there is never any question she would follow him in whatever cause he saw fit to fight for. Even for this planet; even for people she cared naught for.
One of her hands plays idly with his hair, looking at him as Illidan speaks. He doesn't need her, Vashj is certain; not with the amount of power he possesses now. Yet never had she doubted her presence was dearly wanted, otherwise he would not have gone through all the trouble he faced to return her to the world of the living, to his side. Throughout millennia, the changes had been many; yet even death had held no power to sever her loyalty to him. If Illidan needs reassurance there is one person in existence who shall always have his back, then by all means she would provide it.
Another of her hands rests upon his chest, a third reaching to cup his face. "I am with you, no matter what comes. As I was before, as I will always be. That will never change."
The fire in her eyes does not lie — her devotion does not come in half-measures. "If I had to lay down my life for you again, you know I would, without hesitation, Illidan. I do not regret that, only that I failed you."