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[reparo]

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[reparo]

(In hindsight, this won't be the first time that she crosses the barrier between worlds accidentally and making the best of it.)

It goes like this:

There is a knot in her throat at the beacons get lit, one for each world they have been stolen from, ready to finally return them to their lives. The Merchant is not able to tell them if they'll remember their times here, once back, or if life will go on as if nothing happened.

After what's been almost a year of travelling together, she takes it as an insult to injury. She's changed, in her time in this strange world, she knows that. She's grown into her skills, into her anger, into a lot of things. She's forged bonds with people she will never see again.

So you'll forgive her the slip up, because: she goes to say goodbye. Anduin has already stepped through the portal, when it happens. She turns to Wrathion, trying to commit his red eyes to memory, trying to come up with something cool to say. Instead, she decides to not be discriminatory (because Anduin got one before he left) and surges up to hug him as tightly as she can, burying her face in the crook of his shoulder.

"I won't forget you - I swear, I won't."

That's when it happens. His reply, it there is any, gets drowned by the pull of the portal, which seems to lose patience and sucks the entities closest to it through -- and since she's holding onto Wrathion, she is pulled along with him.

Somewhere, on a mountain overseeing Elletheia, the beacon leading to Hogwarts flickers, stays open for three more seconds, and snaps shut.