May 22nd
Dear Journal,
One would have thought that with all of the wealth that the Sindorei seem to have in Silvermoon that the government could give us better living conditions At least when we went camping at home, we had floor coverings, not just raw dirt to walk on, we had suitable bedding, clean furs and pillows. I know our family tent was larger than the one that I am sharing with these nine other women and there was definitely more privacy.
Since I am considered a raw recruit by the buffoons in Krasarang, and as punishment for not doing what I was told, I got sent with some ne’er do well Rangers to attend to the Hozen problem in the Jade Forest.
Now, Hozen are like jabbering monkeys that you might sometimes see at the Faire, however, these things are filthy. They like to fling all kinds of things at you from wherever they are hiding – rotten fruit, garbage and some stuff that shall go unmentionable. I know that I was so tired of getting hit with this junk and we couldn’t take a moment to stop and clean some of it off – the stench was horrid.
I have never heard animals yelling such atrocious things “Ook you in the Dooker!” seemed to be the most common of curses coming from these beasts. How disgusting that sounds like and the visuals that it brought to my mind made my arrows true to their targets. No way am I going to have one these beasts take advantage of me like that. I hope that if we kill enough of them off that they will have respect for the Rangers in the forest and quit with the throwing of this afoul.
All I wanted to do last night was return to our camp in Krasarang, however, it appears as though we’re going to be stuck out here in the jungle for several days. I even asked our patrol leader if there was a place where we could clean up and get this stuff out of our hair and off our armor. After he finished laughing at me, he handed me a bucket and told where a stream was near our camp and that I needed to fill the bucket up and bring it back to share with the others to get cleaned up.
I almost retched at how some of my other counterparts reacted to getting cleaned up and how quickly that water in the bucket was fouled beyond belief. Oh, there’s no latrine either, we have to go away from camp and go into the bushes to relieve ourselves – we never had this problem when I was camping with my family.
I thought seriously about cutting my hair off last night too because I thought that I had gotten it all up under my helm before we started our patrol, apparently, I didn’t do such a good job with that. Now, I have this monkey stench in my hair and not enough time or water to get it all out. I think I will be able to live with it for a while, however, if we’re out here for longer than a day or two, I may get one of the other women to cut it off for me, just to get away from the stench.
I don’t think that I have ever seen my brother look like some of the Rangers either. He was always immaculate, clean shaven and he sure didn’t smell like these people either. Of course, I’m sure I’ve never seen him come in from the field, as he likes to call it, so, I was totally unprepared for this part of being a Ranger. I don’t like it at all. I know that we can’t wear our dress uniforms while we’re on patrol because they would be like a beacon in the night to some of these creatures that we’re fighting here in the jungle, however, I never knew how filthy Rangers could be. Oh yeah, some of them are pairing up for the nights too – nothing like body heat to keep warm – and then they laugh at me because I had such a shocked look on my face.
No, I didn’t go through the full basic training thing like they had in Silvermoon because I didn’t exactly join the way that some people did. I didn’t join up until I got to Pandaria and could prove that I could shoot my bow with the best of them. Had I known that this is how it was going to be, I would have stayed with the mercenaries a little bit longer, I bet I would have already been in Halfhill and I bet I might have had a day off too. I know that there are a lot of things that I should have done differently when I got here, I just had one goal and that was to find Dawnglory, which I haven’t done yet either.
I always thought that being in the Rangers was going to be a wonderful experience. They always look so handsome in their uniforms as they stride around Silvermoon. My brother always looked more than a little bit handsome when he had on his dress uniforms too – now, these fellows here in Pandaria look so much like the mercenaries that I was traveling with and act worse than they did, it’s a shock. I wanted to look smart and pretty in my armor when I find Dawnglory – he would be very shocked to see me although I am sure that he would think that I looked beautiful in my uniform – it matches my hair beautifully.
It’s not like I can write my brother and ask him to send a letter to the Rangers here in Pandaria to let me out of my commitment because I am sure that he would say “no” anyway. I didn’t exactly leave on the best of terms and I am sure that he is still angry with me. He’s really going to be sorry if I get hurt up here too, it is his fault that I am in this mess anyway.
Faendra Morningstar
