Watching Sylvanas walk away, Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Alleria exchanged a glance, only to find the same bewilderment in each other's eyes.
"Sylvanas, if Mother isn't going to..." Yu Lin Bloodhawk called after her.
"Then I'll go to your territory and become its military commander!" Sylvanas's voice came back to them.
...Yu Lin Bloodhawk and Alleria once again looked at each other, speechless.
Lireesa Windrunner had gone to Silvermoon City, and seven days passed without any further word from her. Meanwhile, Alleria and Sylvanas were both so busy that they had no time to spare for Yu Lin Bloodhawk.
Even so, Yu Lin Bloodhawk certainly did not find himself bored out of his mind with nothing to do.
Shalandis Isle was anything but quiet now. In fact, it was positively bustling... Oh! No! That wasn't right! Rather than bustling, it was plagued by constant trouble and noise.
Shalandis Isle was no longer sparsely populated as it had been before. Now it was overcrowded. After Lireesa Windrunner ordered the civilians to relocate, every villager in Windrunner Village had been moved to Shalandis Isle.
The little island had seemed extraordinarily spacious when few people lived there, but with all the villagers from Windrunner Village moving over at once, it had become terribly cramped. With military tents everywhere, it looked just like a refugee camp.
Fortunately, ample supplies of food and other daily necessities had been prepared, and the mass relocation had not been especially rushed. Apart from houses and other permanent structures that could not be moved, almost everything portable had been brought over.
It was also fortunate that Yu Lin Bloodhawk and his people had seized more than a dozen merchant ships during their time as Bloodskull pirates in Stranglethorn Vale. Those ships had been a tremendous help during the relocation.