On Honesty, Honour, and the Sacredness of Obligations
Rating: M | Pairing: Khadgar/Anduin Lothar | Word Count: 17.7K
There was something…unsettling about the boy. Anduin had thought so since their first meeting, but it became even more evident as he spent more time around the kid. It again called into question whether he could trust the boy, because the mage was clearly carrying a wide range of secrets with him, but there was…something else. A burden, perhaps—the child had been through something that had changed him formatively. Anduin couldn’t be certain of that, of course. But he had seen enough in young soldiers, the loss of their comrades, hardened by war… He almost wanted to ask. Light, but he did not want to sympathize with the kid. --------- When Khadgar turned up in Stormwind, mere months after renouncing his vow as Guardian Novitiate, it was to bring attention to a dark magic that was only the beginning of the threat Azeroth was coming to face. He never anticipated that he would be drawn into a war. Especially not while he carried the dangerous secret of why he left the Kirin Tor in the first place.
