An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
“The city guard are in charge of bucket lines and Alliance footmen are the undisputed bucket heads. Ask them for help.” Sylvanas commanded almost icily.
“Good point! Dark Lady, Dread Lady.”
Clea was out of the room faster than the wind and closed the door with extraordinary care after her. Possibly a little like someone leaving behind two snarling fel hounds.
“Decades of training and centuries of experience, and here my rangers are sent to fight fish in a barrel…” Sylvanas shook her head in pretended exasperation and dispelled some of their actual such. “Please, Jaina, you were saying?”
Jaina was taking a deep breath.
Someone who was about to listen to something important from her mage should not make note of how the cloth of her robes stretched out when she did that. She really shouldn’t.
"Sylvanas. I want you to possess me."
“You do not find me scary, then?”
“Yes I do.” Jaina whispered and the previous bout of brashness left her. “You scare my fears and my nightmares away.”
And then – For Tides’ sake!
The distinct treading up the stairs was somehow intrudingly distinct just today.
Had everyone arranged a meeting with one of them this very hour?
“Sorry, have you seen Kitthix? He was here just a minute ago – I mean not literally here but around the tower. I thought he might have gone exploring again.”
“No!” Jaina and Sylvanas almost shouted in unison. “We have not.”
“Can you tell him to come to the town square if you do? But to use the roofs. I don’t think the streets are safe for spiders yet and people can be so squeamish sometimes.”
“Yes Lyana, I assure you we will tell Kitthix but now we have a web of our own to weave and must get back to it at once.” Sylvanas explained with palpable effort. “We were right in the middle of a thing.”
“Oh, that is nice. That you’re webbing. I’ll tell Kitthix when I find him.”