Highmountain

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>Pitch black darkness.
*Skinkt*
>Flashes illuminate the center of your vision.
>Impaled in the ground is a bo staff with two shanks on each end.
*Kra Koooom*
>Cracked in two, a worry stone glows green eyes toward a second weapon crushing the staff.
*Shlktt*
>Blood splashes across the intruding blade through the taste of salt water.
>Cloudy moonlight floods into sight from the right.
*Thunk*
>Uncle Chen's muffled scream for a name reverberates a slippery rope.
>Above the terror, Chen's desperate calls fade into someone else's; much more motherly.
>Far behind that rope, in the distance, two large boats boast two large factions at war.
>To the left, gigantic mountains taller than Kun-Lai Summit pierce through clouds.
>Invisible hooves thump through a field.
>A tauren's warcry rumbles like thunder.
>Dwarven boomsticks accompany the yell as a battlefield materializes in front of the void.
>Horde on one side.
>Alliance on the other.
>With you and a Worgen placed right in the crossfire.
>Again, from the left, a warhorse charges straight your way...
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>The warhorse dissipates into a mist as your eyes crack open to a sideways world shrouded by dusk and a jogging figure.
>Laying on your side, you straighten your head just in time to watch that same Worgen trip over a stump.
>All the logs bundled up in her arms flail aside as she takes a tumble.
"Hilda?"
>The rogue's ears flop out of the dirt.
>"Bleh! Li Li! You're up!"

"What happened?"
>A blood stained strip of linen falls falls in front of an eye onto your favorite rucksack currently doubling down as a pillow.
>Your own paw stops half way to a pinging pain invading your brain.
"Ahh man what happened to my head..."
>"Just lay down and drink some water."
>"Those idiots that captured us had to join the fight, remember? Wait, what do you remember?"
"The Kul Tiran crew taking us from Boralus to Highmountain-"
>"Yeah we all got taken by those Horde scouts when we landed."
"They definitely didn't like you. We walked sooo far and more Horde groups just kept showing up."
>"And then that Alliance raiding party showed up. The fight started fast. We got caught right in the middle after that annoying Goblin cut our ropes."
"That horse."
>"You casted that mist to get us out but the calvary went straight into it to flank. That guy rammed right into you."
"It still hurts."
>"Well duh you were out for two days."
"Two day-! Hnngg!"
>Your ribs pressurize in repsonse to the surprise.
>Looking down, you find that your tunic is open with bandages lining your slightly exposed black and white patterned chest.
>Hilda sheepishly gazes away.
>"I uhh.. I had to see where you were hurt. R-ribs and stuff."
"Thanks. Really."
>"But I definitely didn't give you anything. You had so many potions in your pack, I didn't wanna poison you."
"Most of that is just brew."
>You dig into the rucksack to pluck out a small vial filled with a glittery orange liquid.
>Most of the pain surrounding your nerves goes away after popping the cork off and chugging it.
>Your finger scoops up the bit of orange trail sliding down the side of your mouth.
"Here, you look like you could use the rest."
>"Gross."
"Just suck on it."
>"Fine."

"So two days." You sigh. "So where's Axel and his Aunt?"
>"No idea. I think I finally found out where we are based off the map. But they took that other boat. Maybe they're already at the Trueshot Lodge?"

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hilda sheepish as she tries to explain how she made the tent
Axel and his Aunt took a different ride to go to Trueshot Lodge
Trueshot Lounge visit

Hilda has been trying her best to take care of Li Li's headwound.
Li Li tried to cover their escape by casting a wave of mist.
Alliance calvary just took it as an opportunity to cover their flank charge.

"its not the first time iv been in the middle of the horde and alliance... this time I was just knocked out after the fact, not before"

When hitching a ride from Boralus to Highmountain, the crew and them were captured by a Horde scouting party. hilda with li li caught in between (li li arguing about helping the horde at one point)?

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Vykrul possibility in this story?
>Kul Tiras, current WoW time
>be Björnvald, a Vrykul
>savoring the finest spiritual pigramage away from Stormheim - home
>a most enchanting pandaren from yonder Kul Tiran isles saunters near rune placement of worship
>Gods in Valhalas, she is adorable
>must bring to Freydis back at Stormheim
>surely she will take notice of me upon deliverance
>panda agrees while striving for adventure
>strange amorous vigor, but ok
>my visage
Li Li experiencing Vrykul culture when

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Vulpera addition to the story?
Foe but also friends with the fox?
Vulpera shows lili desert-y survival techniques