The Mage's Knight in Cold Armor: Apprentice to The Betrayer

When we got to the sewers, not only was it rank with a horrible stench but there bodies everywhere, rotting away and the flesh being eaten by maggots! As much as I'd want to retch at the disgusting sight, I had to stay focused on the task at hand. Me and Faralana, who I was surprised had escaped from Maiev, had to search for Norwell's body in order to extract information on the whereabouts of the cult I was born in, my parents and if they're still alive.

"Does he know?" Faralana questioned me, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Know what?" I countered cluelessly.

"That you're the one who killed Norwell?" Faralana questioned me again, giving me a serious look. "If you did, I bet that went over smoothly!"

"No..." I groaned. "I thought that if I told him, he'd hate me."

"Why would you be worried about him hating you?" the puzzled blood elf asked me with an annoyed sigh. "You killed him because he cheated on you right? Out of blind rage of course!"

"Yes, I know I killed him because of that!" I exclaimed. "And the reason why I'm worried is because I'm trying to be at least on good terms with him because of Marenus!"

Fara facepalmed herself then she stomped on over to me, mumbling something under her breath and put both hands on my face, squishing my cheeks! "Girl, pull yourself together! You. And. Marenus. Don't. Need. That. Cheating. Butthole. In your lives! From what you've told me about Illidan, you and him can still talk to each other and he can manifest himself in the physical world, correct?"

I nodded to her question as her holding my face prevented me from speaking properly.

"And Marenus approves of Illidan as well too, right?" she asked me again, releasing her hold on my face and I nodded again in reply. "Then you don't need that walking corpse of an ex-husband around you! Fuck what Varian says!"

"Yeah, but it's still our mission!" I defended. "Besides, if this pregnancy starts to get a bit too much for me, Varian gave me permission to go back home and stay there until the baby comes."

"Okay then." Faralana grunted, knowing that she couldn't win this argument. "You do know that you're starting to show, right?"

I looked down at my belly and I realised that it was starting to turn into a bump! "Yeah, I know." I stated with a straight face. "But I've already heard from others that I should be at home resting when in reality, I've faced off foes before when I was pregnant with Marenus."

"Really? The pregnancy didn't weigh you down at all?" Faralana perplexed, in shock of what I said.

"Nope! Not even when I was close to being full-term!" I laughed.

"By the Sunwell, you're one tough mama!" the blood elf bantered, lightly elbowing my upper arm. "I don't think I know anyone else who can do the shit that you can do while pregnant, not to mention almost close to giving birth!"

I giggled as a reply and we both kept searching through the innumerable bodies that were left in the sewer to rot. Finally, even though the face was as pale as snow, I recognised the wound on his throat!

'Norwell...I'm so sorry...'

"I found him!" I alerted Faralana. "Get Edua and Ludwig down here!"

Fara nodded and went to the pathway where we entered the sewers. "Hey! You two, we found the body!" she called out for both death knights. "Come down here quickly!"

I was struggling to move Norwell's body from under the pile of bodies that were on top of him, but Faralana helped me and we were able to remove his body from the stack. Ludwig and Edua rushed over to us and Ludwig immediately look horrified as he stared down at Norwell's body!