Vuria was shaking. The mage had seen her friend and comrade of many thousands of years brought low and turned into a mount so easily. She had heard of it happening but had not seen it herself, and certainly not in such a fashion. It was like the girl described. It was so quick. It felt as though she looked away for just a minute during her own fight and when she looked back Tanna was being ridden. The defiant warrior's eyes had lost the spark of intelligence and sentience. There was no mental battle going on between her two pointed ears in that head of hers. That was how it appeared. Her mind raced as she thought of what it would feel like. There could not have been too much of a struggle or a sense of loss if it really was over the course of a few seconds. Just a brief lapse followed by an eternity of servitude as a pack animal.
That was ultimately what it came down to. Draenei were long lived so the end of their species here would not be a blip, it would stretch on into the future past the lifespan of entire cultures and nations. Their legacy would be changed in the memory of others to nothing as their accomplishments, their armor and everything they were good for before was boiled down into simple tasks fit for pets. Shamefully, the more she thought of it the more she felt it to be a faintly arousing thought. The loss of control or agency. If she were conquered like that her fate would be as a possession to be guided and passed down over for millennia, like an heirloom. Unconsciously the Draenei mage's tail began to wag.
She stopped herself and turned to the goblin she had suspended. Battle was still going on all around her. Draenei were fighting and some were holding their own while others were being transformed. Vuria took a deep breath and steeled her resolve. The simple fact that they were holding out was reason enough that she should not give in. If there were just a few of them left there was still a chance of preserving something and fighting back.
"How do you do it?" She asked the suspended goblin.
"Is it reversible?"
The restrained, floating goblin looked at her incredulously. "I'll show you how it works if you let me go. And no, it's not reversible." The man smirked tauntingly at her.
"Your friends soul and personality all got squished out. She's literally an object."
"W-what?" Vuria gasped. She had no idea it could be that bad. She had her guesses, but did not think there was a way for any of them to be true.
"She's gone?"
"Nah, she's right there, mooing away like she should." Vuria bared her teeth at the man.
"Sorry, it's a bit derogatory, I know. She's a mount, not a cow. All the smart girls tend to want to be mounts. It just so happens that all the girls that fight too hard end up becoming cows."
"Why is that?" Vuria stepped towards the man.
"Because if we can't beat you normally we gotta start using our other crowd control abilities. That's important for annoying magical bitches that can cast spells even when their hands are hooves..." The Goblin uttered in annoyance.
"Why haven't you used this yet. You are pretty soundly defeated and the only reason you are alive right now is because I am asking moo questions."
"Asking who?"
"Asking m-" Vuria covered her mouth. She suddenly leveled an even greater harsh stare on the goblin.