Winding Road

I had just gotten to level 15 and had already reported to Jaina and saved the Blue Recluse from its horrible ghost infestation. Now it was time to venture to a new land and get my new robe. I message another friend that I had met on my first day as a level 1--she was a mage too and we had been questing together. She asks me to accompany her all the way to Loch Modan, a far off land, a very long way from Elwynn Forest.

We talk for a few minutes and decide the easiest way to get there is to obviously head to Redridge then to Burning Steppes, Searing Gorge, and into the tunnel that leads to Loch Modan. Seems like a nice walk on a nice evening. We don’t realize that Burning Steppes is full of monsters that would kill us the second they saw us.

So we turn around and make a new plan--we head to Westfall and swim from there to Wetlands. A nice swim never hurt anyone. Well after a two-hour swim we finally reach Wetlands. We even get a new flight path so that we will never have to swim again. From there it’s only a 45-minute run away from giant crocodiles and Level ? murlocs.

As we finally reach our destination we run into another mage who had come to get her robe too. We ask which way she had decided to take; we assume she went through the fires of Burning Steppes since we hadn’t seen her swimming. She tells us she simply took the train from Stormwind to Ironforge, then walked to Loch Modan. My mage friend and I laugh for hours about our journey, then we ride on the Deeprun Tram for a while.

We have had many adventures together since then, but none as fun as when we were level 15.