"No hurry. We wait!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk said evenly. "Wait for Sylvanas to arrive. The troops are all under her command."
"Aren't the gryphon flying forces under your command?" the Old Charlatan asked.
"They are! But it's not time to act yet," Yu Lin Bloodhawk said. "What I want is simple, but the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas wants far too much. They want to take over the entire legacy of the great city of Eldre'Thalas, including every elf still inside. With demands that great, we need to do them an even greater favor to make it happen, so..." His voice sank. "Some sacrifices are necessary!"
The Old Charlatan opened his mouth, but in the end, he merely sighed and said nothing more.
Since the rise of the new battle-pet ranger units, the discovery of the alloy veins in the Hinterlands, and the steady influx of vast quantities of rare equipment into Quel'Thalas to outfit every ordinary soldier and battle pet, elf fatalities in the war against the forest trolls had plummeted. Large numbers of battle pets of all kinds took the elves' places in the most dangerous positions.
Now that even the Zul'Aman trolls had been cleared out and driven away, Sorens had not seen casualties among elf civilians for a long time. The sight now seemed to remind him of those days when forest trolls had infiltrated elf villages and slaughtered their people.
"Eldre'Thalas... What a magnificent elf city! A sanctuary that collected and protected Queen Azshara's precious Kaldorei arcane secrets. Though it has become the crumbling ruin now known as Dire Maul... its library still stands!" Watching the slaughter in Dire Maul, Yu Lin Bloodhawk suddenly said, seemingly out of nowhere, "Old Charlatan, do you know what that means?"
The Old Charlatan's pupils abruptly contracted. Of course he knew