"What happened? Can't you tell me?" Yiluo Chenfeng asked anxiously.
"It's really nothing." Yu Lin Bloodhawk mounted the gryphon and fastened his safety belt. "Come on up!"
Yiluo Chenfeng climbed onto the gryphon and wrapped her arms around his waist. Her smile never returned during the journey, and she remained silent all the way to Tarren Mill. Yu Lin Bloodhawk, too, suddenly seemed weighed down by worries and said little more. When they arrived at Tarren Mill, the Quel'Thalas Negotiation Team had yet to arrive.
Tarren Mill was a sizable town at the foot of the Alterac Mountains. The Kingdom of Alterac lay slightly north of the central Eastern Kingdoms, with its capital atop the snowy mountains of Alterac.
Alterac bordered Dalaran, the City of Magic, to the north, and Lake Darrowmere separated it from the powerful human kingdom of Lordaeron. To the east, the foot of Alterac's snowy mountains bordered the Andorhal region of the Kingdom of Lordaeron. Beneath the mountains to the west lay Alterac Valley, and farther down were the Hillsbrad Foothills.
Tarren Mill lay in eastern Hillsbrad, and Southshore in the west. Durnholde Keep stood to the south, and Hillsbrad Town Farm to the north. The Hillsbrad region bordered the Kingdom of Arathi and The Hinterlands to the south, with routes leading north to the Gilneas and the Kingdom of Lordaeron.
Tarren Mill was an important population center in Hillsbrad. Behind it flowed the Tarren Mill River (I've forgotten what the river was called, and the lake, too). This river flowed from an inland lake in the Andorhal region, passed through Tarren Mill, and reached the sea at Southshore. To the south lay Tarren Mill Lake. It was a large lake, but its water was exceptionally clear and teemed with freshwater fish. There were dense aquatic