"Forget it. If your dragonhawks are tired, land them on the bow of my ship! Go back after the inspection, and don't bring any plague you might be carrying into Quel'Thalas," Yu Lin Bloodhawk shouted.
Several dragonhawks descended onto his bow. Yu Lin Bloodhawk ordered them to stay there and not come any closer. He and his naval officers and sailors waited anxiously in the captain's cabin.
At midnight, a medium-sized ship arrived from Sunsail Archorage. It stopped a hundred meters behind Yu Lin Bloodhawk's ship and lowered a small boat carrying five mages, each enveloped in a magical shield. When the boat drew alongside his ship, the mages blinked aboard.
After spending hours on edge, Yu Lin Bloodhawk finally felt a little reassured. He ordered a naval officer to bring all the soldiers out and have them line up for inspection.
The mages told them to gather together, then surrounded them, murmuring incantations.
As the incantations rang out, the mages stretched both hands forward in unison. Blue halos of arcane light gathered in their hands, swelling to fullness before turning into winding arcs of arcane lightning. The arcs twisted and leaped, finally converging into an arcane orb above Yu Lin Bloodhawk and his naval personnel.
Once the orb had absorbed all the energy from the mages' hands, it burst with a soft pop. It shattered into countless dreamlike motes of light that fell onto the people gathered below. Everyone shimmered with innumerable blue specks, which disappeared after a while.
An arcane mage walked over and said, "You're all fine."
Yu Lin Bloodhawk breathed a sigh of relief, then pointed at the ten dragonhawks and their ten riders on the bow. "The Dragonhawk Riders next!"
The arcane mage nodded and headed toward the Dragonhawk Riders. Since night had fallen, all