I just got an update from Anna over at Too Many Annas! She and Spaceship Husband are safe but she can’t load her blog from there. She intends to stay where she is until the power is back on at home. Much <3 to the Anna!

I don’t remember anything for many hours after learning that my home, my sister, everything I loved, was destroyed. I could not think nor feel. The wounded were prepared for travel and sent on their way. Some could not be moved, so many of us chose to remain behind to care for them and to defend the Temple. Prophet Velen left with the wounded. There could be no other choice. If none of the rest of us survived, he must.

I chose to stay. My patients needed me, the Temple needed me, and there was nothing waiting for me in Shattrath. The only family I had on this world was Yaaniesa and she was now gone. I felt empty inside. All I could cling to was the power of the Light. I held to me the image of the Temple as I first saw it. This was our most sacred temple and I would stay and fight the orcs for it. It was all I had.

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