"Didn't you want to see the once-glorious Azshara? Even if nothing remained but ruined walls, wouldn't it be nice to take a look? It beat staying here scheming against a bunch of people! Why did you think I went to such lengths to collect gold coins? You couldn't travel far without money! It would be even better if a mage came along. Who knew? We might even find some ancient artifact in Azshara," Yu Lin Bloodhawk joked.
"A fleet... how long would we have to wait for that?" The Gryphon Riders were full of longing, but a fleet still seemed far beyond their reach.
"It wasn't that hard. We had ships, just no one to sail them. Look, we didn't even have enough crew for a single transport. We could use nothing but humans, but I wouldn't feel entirely comfortable with that, so we'd have to take it slowly," Yu Lin Bloodhawk said. "That's why you need to train the Household Guard well. I'll be taking them with me someday."
"To Kalimdor?" a Gryphon Rider asked.
"Where else did you think?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked. "Surely we couldn't go with just our hundred-odd people! What if we ran into someone powerful and couldn't beat them? That wouldn't do. It would be fine if we escaped, but if we couldn't and got captured, wouldn't we be miserable as slaves? So either we don't go, or we go with enough strength to beat whoever we meet. At the very least, we need to hold our own!"
"If we had the manpower, we'd have the ships?" a Gryphon Rider asked in surprise. "Didn't we only have two ships?"
"We only have two right now. Another large ship like this one is being refitted in Quel'Thalas, but I don't know whether we can get