Ever since meeting Alleria at the last Alliance Meeting, his adjutant had often seemed distracted. Sometimes Turalyon would secretly murmur Alleria's name under his breath, and he was constantly trying every possible means to gather information about her.
"There's nothing I can do! Besides, I have no way of finding them right now," Lor'themar said helplessly.
"How can you not find them? Isn't the Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion at Menethil Harbor of Proudmoore?" Lothar suddenly asked in surprise.
He could not recall ever receiving a military report that the Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion had left Proudmoore. Although they did indeed have considerable autonomy in their decisions, they still needed to report their movements and operational objectives to the Alliance Supreme Command. This was not merely a matter of coordination; procedure required it as well.
"The Expeditionary Army Corps is still in Proudmoore, that's true, but General Alleria, Commander Sylvanas, and Lord Bloodhawk are no longer there, so there's nothing I can do," Lor'themar said.
"Then where did they go?" Lothar asked, greatly startled.
How could the supreme commander of an army corps simply leave his troops during a war? And it was not just one commander who had left, but all three senior officers together. It sounded utterly unbelievable.
"Proudmoore sent me word a few months ago that the three of them had urgently returned home to deal with something. Actual command of the Elven Expeditionary Burning Legion stationed in Proudmoore is now temporarily in the hands of a provisional operational headquarters jointly established by the Expeditionary Army Corps and the Hinterlands navy."
"And don't ask me what they went back to deal with," Lor'themar said, "because I don't know either!"
He glanced at Turalyon and joked, "Perhaps they hurried home to get married! They say Lord Bloodhawk is General