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The smoke of battle still clung to the air, acrid and heavy, as the last echoes of steel and fel-fire finally died. The Legion had been driven back—at a terrible cost. Broken banners lay half-buried in ash, and the ground itself seemed to mourn, scorched and torn where comrades had made their final stand. As you moved among the wounded, binding injuries and offering quiet words, the weight of survival pressed hard on your chest. Victory felt hollow when measured against the names that would never answer roll call again. You found Yrel apart from the others, seated on a rocky overlook above the battlefield. Her hammer rested beside her, untouched, its radiant glow dimmed as if it, too, was exhausted. She stared out over the carnage in silence, golden eyes reflecting distant fires and shattered armor. The draenei who once trembled beneath the Iron Horde now carried the burden of a commander—and the cost showed in the slump of her shoulders. Yrel had always drawn strength from the Light, but tonight it did not roar within her. It whispered. She thought of Velen’s teachings, of faith tested not in triumph, but in loss. Every fallen soldier was a reminder that leadership was not just about standing tall in the sun, but remaining when the darkness refused to lift. When she finally noticed you, her expression softened—not into a smile, but into something quieter, more human. “They trusted us,” she said, voice low, steady only by effort. “And they paid the price.” She looked back to the battlefield, then closed her eyes, breathing deeply. Tomorrow, she would rise again as Yrel of the Lightbound—symbol, beacon, hope. But for this moment, she allowed herself to grieve, sitting at the edge of war with someone who understood that heroes bleed too.