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[thewhitepawn]

[Anduin's voice is once more quiet and lightly tinged with a well-composed disappointment. He had perhaps been a bit too-focused on finding a sembalnce of normalcy lately, and now...]

May Aunt Jaina find peace ...or at the very least the strength to ...get herself through what is to come.

[Because he knows what lies ahead for the departed Mage and feels nothing but sadness for it. More than the loneliness of an empty home, more than his homesickness and desire to see his father once more - this is still perhaps worse. The knowledge of what lay ahead for Jaina very soon now that she had gone home was heartbreaking. He sighs softly, the weariness creeping into his tone.]

Ah- tell me, what do you do when you have trouble sleeping?

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[thewhitepawn]

I'm glad that you've been well.

[He's entirely sincere when he says this, relieved that there is someone there, close, though his feelings on Wrathion are still uncertain and forming. He doesn't dislike his company, certainly!]

Likewise, I'm glad that you sleep well. It seems I'm not the only one who has a few restless nights.

[Or nightmares, but who is really going to contest that now?]

[indirection]

What plagues you? Worries about the future? Pandaria? Your father, perhaps?

[thewhitepawn]

[A touch warily.]

A little of everything, to be honest.

[indirection]

[He has his chin proverbially in his hands.]

Oh? Tell me, what form do your dreams take? Do you imagine Pandaria, overrun with the sha? Hellscream's axe in your father's corpse?

[thewhitepawn]

...Not particularly an image that I wanted to add to the list.

[indirection]

Terribly sorry. [not really.] I'm only making conversation.

[in truth, he wonders if Anduin's particular brand of nightmare matches up with his own. But Wrathion does have so many.]

[thewhitepawn]

[He's quiet for a long time, uncertain of how or if he even should answer the other before the need to confide in someone who at least understands what was happening grows too strong.]

But... yes. I do think of those things. I worry about what is happening even now, where my father has gone to, where the Alliance and Horde stand ...how Pandaria will be affected and what ramifications will follow from that.

[indirection]

It's an awful burden, isn't it? Knowing the gravity of the situation back home and yet having no power at all to affect it.

[maybe he's speaking a little bit for himself here, too. maybe.]

[thewhitepawn]

It ...is. It's a terrible feeling, combined with not knowing what could be happening even now.

[indirection]

[he murmurs.] You'll have no argument from me, Prince Anduin. My mind is constantly with Azeroth, even after so many weeks trapped in this place.

[thewhitepawn]

Trapped is a perfect way to describe it. I feel even more limited than I did when I was captured by General Nazgrim.

[A quiet sigh.]

Someone mentioned that for us it would be like time in Azeroth is standing still. Things may happen, but for us, if we return ...do you really think we will go back to our precise moments and return to the tasks we had before us?