“Nooo….” Liaena muttered as she looked back at Rithrynn, also ignoring the developing drama between the two Night Elves behind them. Buried in the bedrock of the city as they were, the girl was reasonably content that there was nobody there to hear them. “I suppose they must have gone back to the mansion – maybe? Or not”

“….”

“I need to know what’s going on in the city” the girl muttered after a pause, lowering her voice in a vain attempt not to be overheard by the other Night Elves. Luckily, the others appeared to be mostly distracted by Aleena and Lithrielle (the dispute was apparently to be settled via arm wrestle). “We know that Sherpa’s out there, and Light knows what he’s doing, and what’s going on. We weren’t exactly subtle”

[i]“And I don’t want him getting near….you in particular”[/i]

The girls eyes strayed over the Night Elf a trifle uneasily at that thought, biting her lip slightly before making her next proclamation. “I’m going to go track Sharon down and let him know what’s going on. You should stay here, and make sure your friends don’t wander off and trash the Cathedral. Besides, Thea’ll be down here in a bit, I expect Liam went to get her”

*

“Oh, I’m not very brave at all. It was quite terrifying, really” Kathlin said quietly as she supported the wounded woman on her arm, as they walked through the corridors. Turning her head to look at Alissah, the girl blinked for a moment before tentatively returning her smile. “It’s the door just to your right, Ma’am”

Guiding Alissah through the doorway, they emerged into a large, quiet room with many beds all spaced out well apart. A couple down the far end were occupied, the occupants administered to by a priest that gave Kathlin and Alissah only a passing glance as the former moved the latter onto a bed. Ensuring that the woman was sat comfortably, Kathlin bent down to whisk a box containing several neatly folded hospital gowns out from under the bed, removed one from it and placed it on the bed next to Alissah as she started to pull curtains around the bed to give it some privacy. “Can I give you assistance to change, Ma’am?”

Taking the womans nod as silent assent, Kathlin seated herself on the bed next to start carefully unlacing the leather armour and padding protecting the womans vitals. One of her shoulder pads and part of her jerkin were very badly mangled, and would probably need to be cut off. “It was very kind of you, and Li, and the others to come and get me. I really wasn’t doing very well by myself”