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[demonwinged]

[Illidan's voice is deep and melodic, sounding both speculative and resentful.]

So many things lost worth saving, and so much time spent in preparation and reparation for our chosen paths. Yet, when you look back on your life from the vantage point of these new worlds, what perspective have we?

[He's silent a few moments, speculating answers himself, before speaking again.]

Our presence here does not alter nor reverse what we did on our worlds, nor why we did them. Our mistakes follow us, as do our own truths. The injustice bore on our shoulders follows us too, as it had shaped us before so does it now.

[Illidan's silence this time doesn't last as long, and the resentful tone slips away to leave only a questioning sound to his voice.]

How much can we reshape ourselves here, to find new causes here?

Is there anything here worth sacrificing for?

[Now is the longest pause, and he adds as an obvious side-note not at all related to the ponderings he's shared just now:] And where is the best brothel one can recommend on these worlds?

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[demonwinged]

[It's a shame about the brothel but he can always work his way through them until he finds one suitable enough.]

I lost... a friendship.

[Not with his annoying twin brother, no. Illidan doesn't miss that friendship as Malfurion was always frustrating beyond compare. Somewhere deep down inside he still has some kind of love for him, but it's so far buried and thrashed it might as well not exist.

Tyrande. Maybe they could never have found love but he does lament losing her friendship.]

And my homeland. I was banished.

Have you lost something?

[ryuuzaki]

Oh, any number of things.

[It sounds airier than he's ever actually felt about it -- but lately, he isn't as angry as he was in the past.]

This isn't the first place I was pulled away to. The previous one was considerably worse than this.

Why were you banished?

[demonwinged]

I sacrificed everything, to save my homeland, and for this they called me Betrayer. They banished me, then came to the world I ruled and hunted me there to imprison me further.

[Illidan's tone grows increasingly angry and resentful as he speaks of all of this, as if it happened last week and not thousands of years ago. He's quiet a moment as he reigns in his temper, as it has no place on this world and serves him no longer where there is no one to take his anger out upon.]

Another world, was it? How long as it been since you were home?

[ryuuzaki]

That depends on how you're counting it -- either close to five years, or more than a hundred. We were regularly placed into stasis for months or years at a time in the first place... like sleeping for a long time.

Have you been here for long?

[There are good reasons to guess that the answer is no, but he doesn't like to pose questions in a way that presumes the answer, like You haven't been here for long, have you?]

I'm wondering if anyone has told you about the Moira yet. There are new arrivals lately who had no experience with it.

[demonwinged]

No, less than-- [He's about to make a reference to the lunar cycles of his home world but it's somewhat pointless here and makes him a bit angry at himself. His people run their lives by the goddess Elune but he hadn't in centuries. Out of sight, he scowls at himself.]

...three weeks.

News of the Moira have reached me but in passing only and its journey is yet unknown to me.

[There's a slight pause and more curiously he asks:] Are you human?