The men began to strip down, but one held to the side.
Mark stood there, completely naked. "Come on, dude. This water is amazing."
"Yeah," He looked around to the town behind them. "I haven't been here as long, not as comfortable with standing around naked in public like you guys."
Jerry shrugged. "New guy." He climbed into the lake behind Louis and leaned back.
Mark snorted as he slid in. "Don't worry, once you've seen Grogek's dick, you won't feel as embarrassed by your own."
"Maybe he should stop by Elunara's for the full treatment." Gerald snorted.
The new guy took his clothes off and sat them neatly by the water. He slid in after. "Elunara?"
"Grogek's wife." Louis supplied.
"Maybe you should say that Grogek is Elunara's husband." Gerald rolled his eyes. "We all know who the boss of that one is."
The new guy looked back and forth. "There's someone tougher than Grogek?"
Jerry laughed. "Elunara can be mean as hell when she wants to be." He shook his head. "I'm surprised we didn't get a demonstration when the new people came in."
"Elunara's been busy with her new practice. Since she got back, she's been working up business left and right." Gerald scratched his chin.
"I'm telling you Tom, you need to hit her up. The woman is magic." Mark nodded. "Hey, speak of the devil!" He shifted up so that he was sitting on the edge, and leaned back so that he was proudly displayed. "Hey 'Nara."
Elunara pointed a finger at him. "Do NOT call me Nara. I don't care WHERE you have stuck THAT." She pointed down at his manhood. "YOU have not earned the right to use a nickname. In fact, there are only three people who ever have."
Mark sunk back in the water.
Louis counted fingers. "Grogek, Tulani, and who's three?"
She shrugged. "Renwa."
"Oh." He nodded.
She opened up her other hand and held out a length of chain. "Jerry, you left this on my floor. I had the clasp repaired for you."
"Thank you very much. Leave it on my clothes?"
She nodded and bent down. "I'll put it in your pocket." Elunara turned and left.
"Oh, ho, ho, ho." Gerald laughed. "You pissed her off. I would miss your next appointment if I were you."
Mark sunk lower in the lake. "Better not, or she'll have my head for being a coward." He muttered
"Hey, Elunara..." Zelinnia winced as she jabbed herself with the needle again.
"Yeah?" She looked back and forth as she added more detail to her work.
"I wanted to... Ow. Apologize."
"For what?"
"Back in Ghostlands... I think I killed some of your people."
Elunara shrugged. "I had heard they were sending a contingent in." She shook her head. "But, by that time I had long since been banished from Darnassus. If I even knew any of them, I couldn't tell you."
"Oh." She hissed and pulled the needle out from under her fingernail. "Oh, I can't do this." She shoved the small sewing sample away.
Tulani picked it up and tucked it into her basket. "It's alright; it's just not your thing to learn." She ran her healing hands over Zelinnia's sore fingers.
"Do you miss your home?" Zelinnia frowned at Elunara.
"Do you?" Her eyebrow rose.
After a moment, Zelinnia sighed. "Kind of. I wasn't exactly the guest of honor, but I do miss the brilliance of Silvermoon. I had some friends, though I long haven't spoken to any of them. You didn't answer my question."
She shrugged. "You just gave my answer." She continued to sketch. "You don't have to find your contribution immediately. Take time to learn about the inner workings of this town, and you will find your place. Though it is safe to say, you have to find something to occupy your time until then, or you'll go mad."
"She likes to watch the men train." Tulani grinned mischievously.
"Is that what you do when I'm busy?" Elunara grinned.
Zelinnia flushed. "I... well, I like to watch. Though, I don't like either of you right now." She crossed her arms.
Elunara laughed. "Ah, how many hours have I spent... just watching the men?" She shrugged.
"Now they make appointments, and hope to get a share of time." Tulani giggled.
"I still don't get you people, and how you're ok with this."
Tulani smiled softly. "Once you accept Elunara for who she is, the rest falls into place."
Darguni woke up and Tulani went to fetch him.
"My life was hard earned." Elunara frowned. "People did not understand me, and I did not understand them."
Tulani returned and began the process of feeding the child.
"So, I made my own way. Each person was a new set of questions. I knew who I was, but I had to explain myself to everyone else. I forged myself as a mission specialist and the questions stopped." She shrugged and continued to work on her drawing. "Anything odd I did, well it was for the good of the Alliance wasn't it?" She rocked her head back and forth. "In the end though, it was my decision to bring Grogek back from the Iron Horde that sealed my fate. He understood me. Not just on a physical level, but on a primal level that even I couldn't reach. Just like me, he took something other considered strange, and made it his own. While I was busy making everyone accept him, he was busy making them accept me."
"And by time I came along," Tulani smiled. "The tide had turned." She readjusted Darguni. "I didn't understand a thing, but I was attracted to her from the moment she appeared by the wagon. I had heard of this strange artist, who was trying to restore bodies to their families. I wanted..." She shook her head and laughed. "I'm not sure what I wanted. I just thought that she could return my body to me. Slavers had made me a vessel for their entertainment, and I wanted something more. Elunara took me in, cleaned me up and cared for me. She not only restored my body, but she gave it back to me." Tulani pointed at the framed picture. "In spades. She even gave me a child to take care of." Tulani patted Darguni's back.
"That part was not intentional." Elunara snorted.
Tulani laughed. "Oh stop." She sat the child down on the floor and gave him a toy. "Elunara's screaming could be heard the town over."
"You're exaggerating." Elunara grumbled.
"No. I'm not." She turned to Zelinnia. "You should have seen Grogek, axe in hand, ready to slay whatever vexed Elunara so. I'm told he had to force her mouth shut, just to stop the noise."
Elunara crossed her arms and glared.
"You're joking." Zelinnia managed.
"Ask Ina, or Grogek." Tulani shrugged.
Elunara snapped her board closed. "Let's go to the hill. I need air."
"So, I have to ask..." Zelinnia looked at Elunara's back. "Did anyone worry about parentage?"
Elunara shrugged as she climbed the hill. "Grogek was the only person who didn't. He openly claimed that it would forever be his son, because it was mine."
"Wow." She whispered.
Elunara froze at the top of the hill. "Are you shitting me?"
Zelinnia followed her gaze and stepped backwards. "Is that what I THINK it is?"
Tulani looked around in confusion. "What?"
Elunara shoved Darguni at Tulani and marched down towards the procession. A surprised Tulani juggled Darguni into a more comfortable position before following. Zelinnia stood frozen in fear as she watched the Stormwind crest bob above the heads of a procession of soldiers. Snapping back to present, she rushed to hide behind Elunara.
Elunara stopped in front of the procession. She knelt on one knee before standing. "King Wrynn it is... good to see you." She finished.