Vanaelia, despite her better judgment, accepts a pamphlet from the rotting Scourge abomination undead filth Forsaken, forcing a polite smile in this neutral city. “Keep up appearances,” she thought to herself, “just be polite to this thing.”
Opening the pamphlet as she glances down, one of her eyebrows slightly raises. Nodding a bit to herself while she takes a few seconds to read it, her face takes on a more professorial look than usual as she turns it back so the person who was handing them out can see it.
“You have misspelled this word here, here, and here.” She sighs, shaking her head in more exasperation than annoyance. “This entire sentence…I’m sorry, this entire paragraph is conjugated so incorrectly that I am actually slightly impressed. This part here,” she points at an area on the pamphlet that promises the sweet ecstasy of horrifying nothingness, “is ineffective without the most basic of runes that takes less than four seconds to make.”
Vanaelia visibly fights an urge to roll her eyes, patiently moving her finger down the pamphlet. “This no longer exists, this never did, this should be a river (not a mountain), this should be a mountain (not a river), and this is not ‘grasping oblivion awaiting twilight’. This is actually ‘goat’. Yes, like the animal. So is this. And this.” She frowns, shaking her head in surprise. “This is also about goats. This isn’t even a sentence. It’s just the word ‘goat’ over and over. Anar’alah, why are you so obsessed with goats? Is that what you think the Void is? I’ve been there. It’s not.”
The elf narrows her eyes for a moment, then exhales in irritated recognition. “Wait. I know this one. This the one with the big dreams, right? Maybe of getting a higher ranking than goat?” Vanaelia looks down at the pamphlet, speaking directly to it. “Yes, darling, I know who you are. I know you hear me, too. I’m still not impressed. Neither is anyone else. If you want to actually make a name for yourself, the very least you could do is recruit people with minds that haven’t had the part of their brain with any writing ability rot away. Aim higher.”
Vanaelia stops, looking up at the Forsaken. “You have to understand that if I’m not honest with you, you can’t improve yourself. You have a lot of work to do. Also, your top is out of style. Even if it weren’t, that’s not really your color, darling. You’d think with as many eyes as the Void has, you would have chosen one that had an eye for color.”
“I’ll keep this, though. A memento of when I wasted five minutes of my time. Cheers.”
Vanaelia turns and walks away, tucking the pamphlet into her bag. No, this wouldn’t require any investigation. “Goatie” wasn’t exactly - what was the human phrase? - ‘bringing his ‘A’ game’ back when she had first been exposed to the Whispers. At this point, she was okay with officially downgrading Goatie from ‘annoyance’ to ‘nuisance’.