Renwa was standing in front of her house. "What should I do with THIS?"
"Look, if I have Tyrande purify it, can I please keep it?"
"We'll discuss it." He sighed. "I feel compelled to apologize to you for being so harsh. My decree still stands."
"Nah. I guess I was just more shocked that you'd actually yell at me."
"You do realize that you just scared half the town to death, AND injured about fifteen of our men, right?"
"Actually, I have no idea what happened when I was taken over."
"You would attack with your dagger, and then block the dagger with your staff." Jordan murmured. "You only nailed me because I got in a range that blocked the staff."
"Excuse me?" Everyone looked over at Linda. "I know she is under punished confinement, but would a short visit be alright?"
Renwa sighed. "Elunara is allowed visitors, so long as all visits are cleared through me, and last no longer than fifteen minutes." He walked away.
"I need to lie down, but you can follow."
She sighed as she lay down on the bed.
"I guess you can't feel all that well, having your body taken over like that."
"Looky, queen of the understatements!"
Linda blinked repeatedly and just stared.
"Don't mind her, she gets cranky mean when she's drained." Jordan laughed. "She'll feel bad about it tomorrow."
"Like, seriously tired of this shit." She crossed her arms. "If you're here to tell me you don't want your kid near me, now would be the time."
"Actually, no. It was kind of inspiring, hearing your family try so hard to save you."
Elunara pointed. "I heard you too. I know I did."
Grogek brought her a plate of fruit.
"Thank you my love." She ran her hand on his cheek.
He climbed in bed beside her and took an apple.
"Shouldn't you get back to training?"
He snorted. "I don't eat energy like you do. And you drained me."
"I'm sorry." She bit into a pear.
"Ahem. Uh, what is he talking about?"
"Sorry."
The boys ran in and jumped on the bed. "We fed Savage."
"Momma, you were going to tell us?"
"Where is Lydia? We may as well..."
Lydia stepped in. "General Jordan said I could come in."
"Get on the bed, child."
Lydia jumped on the bed between the two boys.
"The first thing I need to ask, is that this goes no further than this room, unless I otherwise state it. Because there's something very important that I don't want the other children to know."
"Yes, Momma."
"Yes Miss Elunara."
She closed her eyes and sighed, enjoying the love radiating at her. She opened her eyes and frowned. "Darguni is very special. I am a Night Elf from our time; Grogek is an orc from this planet in this time. In order for us to go back and forth, a portal through time must be opened. You should know all of this part. So Darguni is a child of both races, of both times. When I was pregnant with him, he... grew faster than others. The first half of my pregnancy, I stayed so sick I couldn't move. The second half I was so big, I also couldn't move. I was literally trapped in this bed for seven months."
"Babies take nine months." Lydia said. She blushed. "I asked."
"By time I had reached seven months, he had gotten so big, that my body could no longer sustain him. I went into labor, but Ina was afraid I'd be torn apart. So, I summoned my dagger," She flexed her hand. And then drew the blade across her belly. "And cut him out. I kinda blacked out at that moment." She laughed.
"Your mom is terrifying." Lydia whispered.
"Anyway, he was too big. Not normal too big." She shook her head. "Ina guessed he was already two months old. He's always grown faster than anyone. When he wasn't quite two, I... things started changing for me."
Jordan walked in, drying his hair. Linda looked over and blushed. He climbed into bed behind Elunara and wrapped his arms around her.
"This next part is no secret. Jordan was killed by an idiot with a gun, and... I lost my marbles. I summoned a power I never knew I had to pull his spirit back from the nether. I didn't know what had happened at the time, I didn't feel I had done anything. Soon I had pulled off several "miracles". Not that I understood anything about it." She stared at her hands.
"I am eternally grateful." Jordan kissed her shoulder.
"Then, Grogek died... and all hell broke loose. To put it mildly, I slaughtered the orcs. Renwa is still trying to figure out how I decapitated some of them in a single blow with a DAGGER."
"My avenging angel." Grogek kissed her other shoulder.
Not only did I go on a mass slaughter, I then forced the nether to give me back my mate."
Jordan tapped a framed picture on the wall. "This is an accurate representation. Well over fifty troops, eight healers, and a mess of townsfolk all confirm it."
"Anyway, in the process, I drained my body. I was completely wiped out. Well, I wasn't regaining my strength like I should have been. Because of this extreme miracle, Tyrande Whisperwind was called to investigate. It was she who determined that the reason I'm so freakishly strong, the reason I have such a ridiculous amount of stamina, is that I absorb energy given to me by other people.
Whenever you look at me and think "I like you" I get a fresh boost. I can never take more than is given. If someone looks at me and thinks "I hate you" I still get a tiny boost because they acknowledged me, but I can't get a GOOD boost because they had a negative thought towards me. All these years that I have put myself in the way of people, I've been absorbing their energy. When people love and appreciate me, I get lovely boosts. My family is a walking boost to me. The more... interaction I get, the more I can feed." She popped a grape in her mouth.
"And we gladly give it to her." Tulani walked in and scooted up into Grogek's lap, wrapping her arms around Elunara.
"In the end though, the massive amount of energy I drained to bring Grogek back, left me open to a creature known as a dark star. It was eating me alive, and not letting me absorb energy. Tyrande decided the best way to fix me, was to take me to Darnassus. I come back to the big secret. When we left for Darnassus, Darguni wasn't quite two years old. When we arrived in Darnassus, Darguni was four years old."
The children gasped and stared at each other.
"Now back to the part people know. They took a couple of tries to cleanse me in the pools of the moon, but on the last attempt, they were having difficulty making it work. Tulani and Grogek were trying to give me all the energy they could, but they weren't making headway. Then Darguni, in all his adorable innocence, dove into the pools, climbed the statue and jumped on my legs. It was his loving energy that allowed my body to finally banish the dark star."
"Wow..."
