After waiting for about a half hour for Vankari to return, Mau sensed something wrong.
“It usually doesn’t take this long for Vankari to go hunting. He is very skilled and it should only take him a few minutes”, she said worriedly. I also became worried and hoped that he would come soon. Suddenly, there was a hard bang on the door.
“Should you answer that Mau?”
“Its me Vankari, let me in quickly”, said the voice from the door. Mau opened it and, to our relief, Vankari rushed inside.
“There coming, he’s coming”, Vankari panted. “Who’s coming?” I asked.
“We should leave now! If he finds you, he’ll never set you free.”
“Who are speaking of, Vankari?”
“I saw him and his soldiers in the distance, not far from here! He must have used magic to find you so quickly. We must go, NOW!”
“It’s not Azeroth, is it? Why would he be interested in her?” Mau asked him.
“No, not Azeroth, worse. It’s Lanak and he is determined to find what he is looking for.”
“Who is Lanak, and why would he want me?”
“There’s no time to explain, we must go to save your own fate.” Vankari rushed back outside and brought his other horse from the back shed. It was a beautiful black stallion. “ Efeshia, you’ll ride with me on my horse and Mau will ride on hers.” Vankari mounted on his horse and grabbed my arm for me to get behind him.
“I never went horseback riding before and I don’t know how to do it now!” I yelled.
“Efeshia you don’t have much of a choice, just get behind and hang on to me. You’ll be fine.”
Mau had no problem getting onto her horse. She rode with ease and was ready to go. I climbed onto Vankari’s horse and hung on tight. We galloped away instantly and rode into the direction of the sun. After a few minutes I could sense a sudden danger arise. I felt cold and sick inside, as if I was being vexed. I started to see black fog creeping up into the trees. A cold wind was blowing from behind us.
“He’s getting closer Efeshia. We may not make it.” The darkness crept even closer to us.
“Don’t look back!” Vankari Shouted. Vankari really shouldn’t have said that. I turned my head around to see the darkness, like smoke, following behind us. I could also here the pounding of hoofs galloping around us. I became terribly frightened. Suddenly, our horses stopped, as if stunned, and didn’t move a bit.
“What’s going on?” Mau said in a panicky voice.
“Get off the horse and start running, now!”
As soon as I jumped off the horse I felt sick to the stomach. My body began to ache and I was scared to death. I couldn’t run so fast.
“Vankari, Mau, go without me.”
Vankari turned around to grasp my hand.
“I can’t just leave you here, its you they want!”
“Lets go now!” Mau cried.
Vankari grabbed my arm and jerked me with him.
“We have no time to lose. We need to make it out of the forest while we still have time.”
We started running faster and faster, but the air became darker and darker.
Mau looked back to see us lingering behind. “I don’t think we’ll make it.”
As we ran I could hear strange noises, similar to those I heard before I came into this world.
They sounded as echoes surrounding the forest.
“Mereth en draugrim, Lasta lalaithamin.”
“Do your hear that? Where are those voices coming from?”
“Don’t look back Efeshia!”
We were getting tired of running and the darkness had already surrounded us.
“Lle holma ve' edan!” Voices were surrounding us as quickly as the darkness was. “I can’t run anymore, just leave me”! My body ached for no reason and my head was spinning; yet Vankari kept running. I could go anymore and before I knew it, I tripped and twisted my ankle.
“Get up, get up now!” Vankari shouted.
“Its too late.” Mau looked dead ahead at the forming shapes in the smoke.
“Amin sinta thaliolle e dagor.”
I could feel my heart racing as I looked forward. Vankari just stood there, right next to me. “What's going on?” I asked in fear. Vankari turned his head to look me in the eye.
“The beginning of the end”, he softly said.
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