For the first time since he woke up from slumber on this ship, all that arbitrary time ago, Maridian had managed to walk into a Sensorium that was not currently in use.
Not that he'd ever
admit it, but looking on the blank grey void that surrounded him, waiting for his command to read from his thoughts and memories and simulate the environment he bade it to, nostalgia and loneliness crept slowly up from the pit of his stomach, into his chest.
Azeroth was gone. He could return to it only in memory.
Maridian stood and watched, arms folded, as in response to his mental commands, the scene shifted, again, and again, and again.
Falconwing Square, where the paladin had first raised hammer and sword to cleanse...
Eversong Woods, still fraught with remnants of the Lich King's march on the Sunwell no matter how hard the Sin'dorei struggled to cleanse it.
The Ghostlands, where his blade and valor had helped earn the blood elves a place in the Horde.
Ashenvale, where he had first encountered demon lords plotting malice, and stood before the monument to Grom Hellscream. ..
The Plaguelands, Silithis, Hellfire Peninsula, Nagrand. Karazhan, Zul'Aman. The Isle of Quel'danas. Howling Fjord, Dragonblight, Icecrown Citadel, the Frozen Throne.
Memory after memory flashed through the sensorium, to fade a moment later. A reminder of what was lost.