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What do you remember?
Daughter.
What do you remember?
Darling.
Papa.
Daughter.
What do you remember?
Daughter.
Daughter.
Da--
What do you remember?
Dalah’surfal.
--
“Promise me.”
“No.”
“Pro--”
“No. You’re asking me to just abandon you if things turn south, Sylvanas!”
“Please promise me.”
“No.”
She sighed, arms wrapping around the mage from behind.
“Dalah’surfal… I just want you to stay safe. He’s come after my people and my home. It’s my fight… please understand.”
She felt exactly when the other woman’s resolve broke, when her shoulders loosened and her breath slowed.
“... I would weather a thousand storms and a thousand battles if I knew I could help you.” Came her soft whisper.
Sylvanas pulled her closer. “I know.”
“So why won’t you let me?”
--
What do you remember?
Dalah’surfal.
My heart.
Sword.
Prince.
--
Strings of Thalassian curses fell from the remaining rangers lips, their split and bloodied lips.
“Advance! We cannot allow him to get to the Sunwell!”
Crackling ozone and pale blue eyes.
Ashen skin and pale white hair.
Knights of sulfur, bone, and undeath.
“General, we’ve lost all our battlemages!”
The elf looked stricken even as she continued firing arrows.
She clenched her jaw.
‘Please promise me.’
She opened a portal and rushed into the fray.
--
What do you remember?
‘I can’t watch you do this.’
Prince.
Sword.
Dalah’surfal.
--
Spell after spell volleyed from her hands into the knights, launching them back only a few paces.
Just enough for the rangers and warriors remaining.
They fell slowly, agonizingly slowly.
But still, they fell.
Her hands weaved sigil after sigil while her mind tried to recall runes that would aid in the moment present.
Haunting eyes and ashen skin.
Pale blue.
White hair.
Sword.
--
What do you remember?
Dalah’surfal.
Elf.
Sword.
--
Her eyes trained on a knight that had gotten too close to one of Sylvanas’ rangers.
Her spell launched it away and long ears twitched in thanks.
She turned her attention forward.
Haunting blue eyes.
White hair.
Ashen skin.
Wasn’t there.
Where had--
“Watch out--!”
Pain.
Searing pain.
Pale blue eyes.
Haunting eyes.
Snow-white hair.
Ashen skin.
Sinister smile.
And a sword.
--
What.
Do.
You.
Remember.
--
“Dalah’surfal!”