"Want me to tell you a story to help you unwind?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked.
Sylvanas nodded.
"A madman with a knife grabbed three people on the street.
The madman asked the first person, 'What's 1+1?'
The first person said, 'Two.' So the madman cut off his head.
Then the madman asked the second person, 'What's 1+1?'
The second person was a bit of a fool, not very bright. When someone asked him what 1+1 was, he only understood the word 'one' and answered, 'One.'
The madman said, 'So you're a fool. Go be a foolish ghost, then!'
And he drove his knife through the fool's heart.
Then the madman asked the third person, 'What's 1+1?'
The third person was very clever. He thought, The first man said two and got killed. The question definitely can't be that simple, so the answer isn't two. The second man said one and got killed too, so the answer isn't one. So he said, '1+1=3.'
Puzzled, the madman asked him, 'How did you work out that 1+1=3?'
The man said, 'One man plus one woman have a child, making three people.'
The madman thought about it and felt it seemed to make some sense, so he asked, 'What if they have two children?'
The man said, 'Then it equals four.'
The madman asked again, 'So does 1+1 equal three or four?'
The man said, 'It equals a number greater than or equal to three.'
The madman said, 'What if they don't have any children?'
The man immediately corrected himself. 'I misspoke just now. It equals a number greater than or equal to two.'
The madman thought for a moment and said, 'Are you telling me one man and one woman can have ten thousand children? You sly bastard, trying to trick me! Even