"Thankfully, I think Rithrynn will buy us valuable time by... distracting Serphia. Still, we probably should try to help the girl before she gets too deep into trouble."

“….ehh…yeah…” Liaena mumbled finally, pushing her hair away from her forehead in a facepalm of her own as she looked towards the house. It was a sign of how flummoxed the girl was by the situation that she did not even attempt to pick up the obvious joke at Rithrynn’s expense.

“I assume you mean ‘deep’ literally”

“Yes, yes, he did mean that” Liaena muttered to Kathlin as she turned her attention back to the unconscious Draenei lying at their feet. “Okay. You’re right, we should at least try and interrogate this bitch before we go get Rithrynn back. Help me get her inside, Kitty”

“Uh, sure”

“Okay” Liaena nodded as the Draenei started to float towards the house, walking beside her as she mentally ran through the bad-guy checklist in her head. “There were some other intruders, a high elf –“

“He got sat on”

“—fine, we’ll dig him out later. Other than that, we had a load of randoms I’m guessing the Night Elves beat up, and some girl Kitty decided to mother. She’ll still be running around the house, I’m guessing” Liaena said thoughtfully, before looking over at Kathlin. “You should go find her, and bring her over. She’ll be a good witness”

“…I rather doubt they told her anything noteworthy, but sure” Kathlin said dubiously as they walked in through the rug. Predictably, Mei and Vashi were nowhere to be seen. Glancing around, Kathlin hesitated before looking back at Liaena who was giving her an expectant look. “…You want me to go get her now?”

“Well she’s only going to stumble into a room full of tigers or Serphia, and I’m not sure which is worse. I’m not completely heartless” Liaena sniffed. “[i]Somebody[/i] should probably look after her. Light knows her own team isn’t”

“....right”

“…..”

“You’re trying to get rid of me while you do something morally questionable with that Death Knight, aren’t you?”

“…..”

“No! Of course not! We’ll wait for you, if you really want to sit in on this” Liaena exclaimed in a tone of wounded innocence in the face of Kathlin’s stare. “I mean, I was just thinking of that girl….she [b]is[/b] going to get eaten by a tiger you know, that bit’s true”

“….yes, okay. I’m going” Kathlin said wearily as she turned towards the stairs. “….you know technically speaking, I need to write a report on this assignment. That’ll make interesting reading”

“Well, I’ll proof read. And censor.” Liaena called back as the other girl’s footsteps grew fainter till they could not longer be heard over the snoring of the Night Elf in half a ball gown. “…Okay fine. Let’s get this one into the cellar before any remotely sober Night Elves show up.”

The girl was already moving as she spoke, Malizia floating behind her as she moved towards one of the side corridors where she knew there was a servant staircase into the cellars. “Also, Death Knights. Any idea which buttons to press?”