Twelve ships of distinctly elven design docked at Southshore.
Among them were four slightly larger destroyers and eight small vessels.
A contingent of Alliance troops disembarked in orderly fashion and formed ranks...
It was a very unusual Alliance force, composed primarily of elven rangers, with just a handful of humans among them.
If not for their blue Alliance tabards and banners, Southshore's Garrison would not even have known that elves from Quel'Thalas had joined the Alliance...
When the beautiful female elven rangers appeared on Southshore's beach, they drew quite a crowd... However, the contingent did not linger in town. They had departed from the western coast of Tirisfal, and after landing at Southshore, their destination was Alterac, where they would help King Aiden Perenolde defend against the Horde's attack.
As Marshal Anduin Lothar's adjutant, Karin Sunfury was the leader of this contingent.
From the western coast of Tirisfal to Southshore... it had been a long journey of more than half a month. Over at Stromgarde, the Horde might already have launched its attack on the Alliance! But Karin did not care. He had his own mission and plans.
There was really nothing wrong with Lothar's arrangement of putting Karin together with the rangers.
After all, in Lothar's eyes, they were compatriots, and judging by their earlier behavior, they were at least "acquainted."
Lothar simply did not know that the way Karin and Alleria had become "acquainted" was somewhat unusual...
High elven ships differed slightly from human vessels... Their hulls were narrower, but they sailed more steadily! Interestingly enough, despite having spent so long in this world and made several lengthy sea voyages, this was Karin's first time aboard an elven ship.
It had been a very comfortable journey, at least for Karin... The destroyer he traveled on had never