#kayni

X listened with both his eyes and ears as she asked questions and spoke to him. "Well what I want you to do is get this binge over and done with so we can get back to work." He spoke a certain authority, it wasn't commanding like El's but his tone and body language almost demanded compliance. 

As he followed her into the tavern and to the back table he watched her steps, the way she walked the way her body moved and he smiled. Thinking about how hard it will be to break these horrible habits of hers. When he settled down at the table he finally motioned for her to put the ear piece in. When she did he spoke to her through the comm unit.

(This rp takes place immediately following El's letter and his leaving the Horde.)

El groaned as Kayni and X had both landed on him. He rolled quickly and as X jumped off El pushed Kayni, gently off of him so he could stand. The aged knight stood up and dusted himself off. His eyes focused on her and he shook his head. "What are you doing? Do you know what you have done? What this entire thing has cost? It is unacceptable behavior, you just can't do what I say? What I requested of you in the letter and later through X here?" El's tone was full of admiration and care for the young woman he was going to marry before he left. "You don't trust me or my judgement and then you fight when I try to ensure your safety and care for through X and the SI. Kayni, what am I supposed to do with you?"

To whom it will concern.

  It is with a heavy heart that I pen these words. I Elhanan Lightmender, Master Blood Knight and Soldier of the Horde, am leaving our beloved nation. It is not for any reason other than my own. I have served Quel’thalas, Silvermoon and the Horde faithfully for many many years. I will always treasure and hold my memories under the red banner close to my heart. I have lived, died once and bled for our causes, but in the end it is all hollow, at least it feels that way to me.  My losses and my family’s losses are too much to bear under this banner. I leave, not because I am unhappy or unfit to carry such burden’s or because the love I have found and carry isn’t enough, but because I wish to return to my roots and to the life I was born into. To leave these losses and the weight they carry behind where they will forever be but a memory and not a physical impairment. That is the sole reason, let it be clear now. I love and cherish everyone of my Sin’dorei, Tauren, Troll and Orc brothers and sisters and make no mistake that this decision is more heart breaking and harder than any decision I have made before. Before I close this I will say a few words to specific friends.

  To Lacryma Devanti. You are, to me, the model of a our race and our order. A pillar of what it means to be a Sin’dorei and a Blood Knight. I have learned so much from you and continue to do so from the memories we share together. I have loved you more dearly than anyone else, I have both fought you and embraced you as a sister for many a years. You are one I will think fondly of often in the years to come before I pass on. Though you may hate me for this decision and you may even try to kill me next we meet, I will welcome that fight. Know this, I have never loved a sister more than you, I was never blessed with a blood sister so you are cherished as such in my mind. Good luck my friend, my captain and sister in arms and in blood.

  To my family, the Sunsworn. Our family dates back to before there was a dividing line in our world, both politically and physically. This will not be easy for you as every patriarch we have embraced has done exactly what I am doing. But remember this, the Sunsworn are not one person, one leader, it is all of us as one, together we span faction and race. We are and always will be together in blood even if we are not together physically. I will never forget where I come from or my family. Be true to who we are and not even faction lines can break us apart.

  To the SI... You do what you do best. And continue to do so for the Glory of the Silvermoon, Quel’thalas and the Sin’dorei! It was my greatest honor to lead you.

  To Kayni, you have shown me what it was to love once more. You warmed a spot in my old, hard and cold body that hasn’t felt light since I can remember. I have loved you from that first moment I saw your naked broken form laying on the operating table. Even in your bloody mess you were stunning beyond belief. I know this will hit you the hardest and I know you will resent me and possibly, like your aunt, want to kill me. I tell you as I told her, I will welcome that day and will not hold hard feelings. You gave me love where I deserved nothing. You gave me hope when I couldn’t see it. You gave me life when it was taken from me. You mean so much to me and I will never forget you.

  That being said, you are young and have your life ahead of you, if you listen to one thing out of this letter hear this. There is life out there, there is love. Do not let this break you, let it make you stronger and let it free you. Do not make rash decisions like you always do, think and then act. Do not take unnecessary risks. Love. I cannot stress this enough. You will find love and when you do give it everything you have, pour your soul into it. Love has a way of bringing us back to life. I have had the blessing of loving two women in my life and you are one of them. I will never not love you, but I want you to find love and I want you to cling to it, let it fill you as you did for me. I love you Kayni Devanti, never forget that.

  Now, lastly, for everyone else who I have had the honor of living, bleeding and fighting alongside, there are too many to mention. I will never forget our lives, our battles and the impact you have all made on my life. You have helped me in ways that I will never fully understand and your relationships mean the world to me. I do not wish for this to sound like my obituary but I feel that way. I leave you all and it feels like I am dying. So let that emotion be weighted with this letter to reinforce how hard it is to leave the life I grew to love and cherish for the life I was born into. Farewell, my brothers, sisters and friends, may we all meet again without hatred and malice in the paradise beyond this world.

  Sincerly and with love,