I really, really should have written sooner but things have been busy!
Foxrun took a trip to Pandaria and invited all of the Dragoons along. A lot of us came down. Ely wore a dress! And relaxed! I don't know why. But she looked nice. I wore a bikini for Mun-Li and she really liked it. We played dice and went diving for oysters. I brought Mun-Li a pearl and Mozelle cooked the oyster meat. That was really good.
Mun-Li also told us the story of Shaohao and said I'm her own little aspect of Niuzao because I'm brave and stubborn. I don't feel brave a lot of the time. I just get in the way of bad things before they hurt people. Maybe I'm a little stubborn? I never thought about it.
The next day was the trip to the Jade Forest. Mun-Li gave us the same tour she gave when Khaz and Som'awa were along. It was really scenic. I kind of hung on her arm the whole time. It was nice. She's so smart and wise and a girl could fall in love with her. Oh wait that's me.
So Liv was there too. She reminds me of me a lot of me when I was that age. When we were at Tian Monastery she asked if she could be a monk. Then she asked if Mun-Li would teach her. And that's how we ended up with a roommate! I cleaned out my workshop-room in the house so she could sleep there. I didn't even know she was cursed too!
I'm really, really, really, really proud of Mun-Li. I would have been so upset if she hadn't let Liv move in with us. Argh. She's so perfect.
So, today, I met Mun-Li's parents. That went well but it was really scary. She knew they'd like me, and I trust her, but that doesn't make it any easier. I had to run home and grab one of my nice dresses. They like me, though! I'm really happy about that.
But then Mun-Li wanted to go to the Shadowlands again tonight. It scared me. It still does. I need to be better about not being scared when she wants to do something different. I took her through the Veil and we went to Bastion together. She got to practice with her own set of wings. She was happy. I'm glad I got mad about being scared and went anyway. She's a fighter. I can't clip her wings. Anyway I told her she needs to let me be scared when things change so that I can get used to them. And she said that just means she'd have to comfort me more.
She's in Liv's room helping her settle in now while I write all of this. A girl could want to spend forever with Mun-Li. Oh wait that's me, too.
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Three words. Three little words that plunged a spike of ice into Khazdorum Stonesplitter’s heart. The danger was long past, the damage long done and well into recuperation, but his brain enacted retroactive terror upon him with scorched earth efficiency. The Emerald Nightmare was not his specialty, nor was the Void. But he knew enough. It had been the Old Gods and the void that had scarred Tyra’s brain so. The Emerald Nightmare was the Void’s manifestation in the Emerald Dream. Tyra and Mun-Li being attacked by something of the Nightmare represented the kind of threat that could have rendered Tyra lost to them all again... perhaps permanently. And he hadn’t been there. Hadn’t even known. Some Warweaver, came his thoughts, When the war comes for his friends; one of them the only one to really, fully trust him, where was he? Where? Was? He? In Stormwind, wandering around trying to meet people, trying to salve his own loneliness. Useless. Venal. Selfish.
Kazdorum stood transfixed in the Warg Tavern, under assault from his own highly sensitive and highly aggressive conscience. The legacy of a mother who’d desperately wished her son to be all that her people had forgotten, a mother who’d died heartbroken that her son had transgressed those ideals. As his own self-hatred mounted, his eyes no longer seemed to register his surroundings properly.
Khazdorum was a combat mage of not-inconsequential power well on his way to an emotional breakdown in a highly populated area. Somewhere in his head he recognized this, and prepared to teleport himself to a location far safer for all involved. Then, a memory stirred. A cheerful voice voicing a question. “Why do you hold so tightly to regret and sorrow?” Mun-Li. An insufferably melodic voice called out from his memories. “You don’t get to decide if you’re a good man or not.” Trist’Aran. A voice echoed almost imperceptivity by the elements hails him. “Your heart is in the right place... to be kind and gentle, honest and true.” Airinn. The sensation of massive bear arms enclosing him in a hug to the sound of an otherworldly forest. Tyra. They cannot all be wrong. His self-loathing roiled and spasmed, but it was cast once again into the darkness. His molten eyes saw his surroundings again. He looked upon Tyra and Mun-Li with tearful eyes for a moment before sweeping both of them in as fierce a hug as he dared with their injuries.
Friends. Lifelines. Beyond price. He would be better. He had to.
Mun-Li joined the Dragoons! I'm so happy. It means we can deploy together. Or if we're apart at least I know we'll be working together? Kind of? I asked her about training as a jumpmaster but she said no. I didn't think she'd say yes. But I had to try.
I also saw an engagement on Thursday. Trist and Maella played music for it. It's scary to think about. It's scary to think that could be me (us?) one day. I don't want to think about that now.
And then I almost blew my hand off.
Alex told me thinks tinkering is interesting, and I know Mere likes weapons. So I was originally working on a pair of flare guns for me and Mun-Li. Then when I was Mun-Li's plus one for Alex and Mere's wedding I decided I'd turn them into presents. Then Alex gave me an invitation and I really had to get them done in time. I rushed. I didn't test the capacitors before I installed them. One gun worked fine. The other one's capacitor blew up in my hand. Writing hurts but I'm trying it to make sure my fingers work. So now my present's going to be late and I'm mad about it. The hand's fine but the present was supposed to be perfect! ARGH!
There was a lot of crying at the wedding. Mun-Li calls them big feelings. Mun-Li's happy cried with me before but that was about us not other people. I don't get it. I mean, I was happy! Really happy! I like Alex. I want her to be happy. And Mere is important to Alex, and Alex being happy is important to me, so I want Mere to be happy too. It was really nice to watch and Alex's vows kind of made me think about how Mun-Li calms me down. She called Mere the moon to her sun. I liked that a lot.
Then Mere's vows made me think about how I'd always need more mead when I saw Mun-Li so that we would have to walk to the office to get more. And how Mun-Li told me she'd wait by the mage district and leave her mead behind at the office so we'd have to walk all the way back and -
Okay. I understand why people were happy crying. I'm going to go kiss my girlfriend now.
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So I saw Val on Monday night. It's been a while so it was nice to talk her again. I like her. She's working for Autumnhearth now. I think that's good for her too. She said she was getting bored in Foxrun. But now I'm going to worry she'll get zapped by a witch in Drustvar or something.
I also took Mun-Li to Northrend for the first time. We went to Borean Tundra, rode on one of the turtle boats, and travelled through the Dragonblight to get to Crystalsong. I made a wrong turn on the way to Crystalsong so we ended up on a cliff instead of on the path like I wanted to. But I think that was good? That was Mun-Li's first view of Crystalsong. She stared at the trees for a few minutes then asked if we could go there. Which was the point! We were there for the balloon ride! She loved that too. We're going to go back soon.
The next day was my flight test. I got into a dogfight. I passed. I'm waiting for the official report.
Oh! And! Mun-Li sang in the park on Tuesday!
We talked about serious things too but I'll write about that later. There's a lot of new feelings I don't know the words for.
Nagrand, Outland
Four months after the discovery of Pandaria
Tyra woke with a start. Her room was dark and quiet. Frighteningly so. She rose from the bed, wrapped herself in a robe that was a little too large, and stepped into the hallway. The house was still unfamiliar to her. Tyra hadn’t stayed in anything that wasn’t owned by the Alliance in two years. She’d lived in her parents’ cottage before that. There was a bedroom for Haxley and his mate and rooms for their children. There was a library, kitchen, and alchemy lab. There was even a stable outside that could double as a hangar for a single person flyer in a pinch. There was so much space!
Maybe that was why it felt so empty.
Tyra trailed her fingers along the banister as she walked down the steps. Noise had been a constant companion ever since she had enlisted. Ships, bases, and hospitals all had their own constant, if distant, cacophony. She stared up at the ceiling.
“Mother of flight…”
Haxley was her cousin. Willow was his mate. He had two daughters and two sons, the oldest of which was thrilled to discover that his new Aunt Tyra could turn into other animals. She wasn’t alone anymore. She had a family. But this was their home, not Tyra’s, and no matter how hard she tried she didn’t feel like she belonged here.
She climbed the stairs as quietly as she had descended them and returned to her room. She’d ask Haxley to help her find somewhere else to stay in the morning.
Mun-Li’s House, Stormwind
Nine years later
Tyra pressed her ear to the door and listened. Liv’s breathing was slow and steady. There was an occasional snore. She stood stock still, suddenly afraid that she’d wake up their sleeping charge if she moved.
“Is she still there, Moonlight?” Mun-Li asked. She had her arms folded over her chest and an amused look on her face. Tyra nodded. Mun-Li waved Tyra over while she stifled a laugh. Tyra rested her head on Mun-Li’s chest once she reached her.
“I still think she needs a tracker.” Tyra murmured.
“Tyra, we discussed this. She needs to know we can trust her.” Mun-Li said.
“Right.” Tyra nodded. She piped up again a moment later. “Panic button?”
“No.” Mun-Li sighed.
“Um. What about a really fragile pendant and if it breaks it alerts us and – “ Tyra’s sentence was cut off by a sudden kiss. She melted against Mun-Li and scowled once she was able to think again. “You did that on purpose.”
“I did. I am not sorry.” Mun-Li held Tyra’s cheeks in her hands and pressed her forehead to hers. “You should not worry about her.”
“I’m not – I don’t – I’m – “ Tyra huffed in annoyance. “There’s so many things she hasn’t had. Now she has us and I don’t want her to ever think we won’t be there.”
“Do you think she will think that just because we are not right there with her or that our friends will allow that?” Mun-Li asked.
“No, but how do we know she feels like she belongs with - “ This time Mun-Li cut off Tyra’s fretting by running her fingers through her hair. Tyra tried and failed to look annoyed.
“Liv has never had trouble speaking up. She will say something if she is not comfortable here. Now come on. The bath is waiting for you.” Mun-Li pulled Tyra along behind her toward the stairs. Tyra cast one last look at Liv’s door. Mun-Li was right. Tyra would have to keep telling herself that until she believed it too.
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Yesterday was busy. I got into an argument with Haxley about letting me leave Stormwind. I thought he was going to kick me out or throw me in the brig but after he calmed down he said I was right. Because Abby’s right Stormwind’s a big cage.
So after that Mun-Li and I went to see Kyuusei in Val’sharah. I was really nervous. I haven’t talked to Kyuusei about much and Mun-Li and I haven’t left Stormwind overnight before. Kyuusei’s letting us stay in her house! It’s kind of intimidating. I hope I don’t break anything.
We saw a lot of things tonight. Kyuusei took us up a trail that let us see Suramar. It’s a different view from the ground. Mun-Li’s right about that (again). We went to Aviana’s and Ashamane’s shrines. I need to remember to not be worgen around anything Ashamane-y. I think Kyuusei was joking but I don’t want to risk it.Â
I can’t describe how Aviana’s shrine felt. Everything jumped out at me. I disagreed with the lessons the new druids were being taught but I didn’t say anything. There was a bird named Trinket and Aviana herself and I can’t tell you why but she doesn’t scare me like other powerful things do. Mun-Li loved the flying test. I don’t think I’ve seen her that happy. We’ll have to go back every day so she can take it again. She was better it than me! How?!
We went to another group of buildings after that. There was a library and a shrine to the Aspect of the Moon. But we sat at the table near there and ate dinner. I don’t know what I’ll do if Mun-Li ever gets tired of cooking.
Kyuusei and I talked a lot. She said cat and crow are the easiest forms for her to take. Tree and Moonkin are hard; I guess she has trouble wearing starlight too. She also has trouble talking in her forms. She doesn’t even extend her arms if something’s too far away! I’m still trying to decide what that means. I still have a lot to learn. I think she can teach me. She offered if I wanted her to. I guess I know more than I thought?Â
Something else she said is that nature is different, so why wouldn’t druids be? It’s really close to what Abby said she’s heard from other druids about balance magic. Tinkering isn’t like that. Neither is flying. You use the stick and rudder correctly or you roll instead of bank. Maybe I’m worrying so much about fitting in that I’m ignoring what’s right? Kugraw and I like being bad druids. I think Kyuusei is one too (Kyuusei if you ever read this I promise that’s good). If they’re doing things their own way, and I look up to them, maybe I should try to do it my own way too?
So I have answers. But not enough. I still think I need to go find my mom’s book. That means taking Mun-Li back to my house in Gilneas. But I’ll think about that later. I’m trying to be good and relax while we’re in Val’sharah.
There were several stupids tonight. The biggest one was three people trying to rob Mun-Li and I outside of her house. But I called for help and the Dragoons in the city showed up and the robbers left. That's good for them because I think Mun-Li and I would have won that fight.
So, first, Mun-Li won the brawl pit thing by the docks on Friday. She beat Mere and a bunch of people I didn't recognize. I don't know if there was a prize. I'm so proud of her! She's really sore, though, so there's been a lot of ice packs and massages. I think she bought two new dresses? She's so pretty.
Trist and Pepper won the fashion show last night! There was money. But it was good to see two Dragoons win it.
Sam got to meet the Dragoons and talk to Ely about pottery and soap carving. I hope she can help Ely with it. I think it'd be good for her. Or she'll bury herself in soap and we'll never see her again. That would be bad.
Tonight was confusing. I have a lot of things to think about and I don't have the words for them. I think I upset Val. I hope the letter I sent helps. I'll be really sad if she stayed angry at me.
Abby, if you ever read this, you're really, really, really right about Mun-Li. I sort of understand why people like poetry now. You don't need to know the words to say something if someone else has said them for you. I guess I'll go to the library tomorrow.
