Blacktail Deer Plateau 'why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight

@Grezig - just outside BDP but wanted to put it here just because

she was leaving, he felt.

grezig had not had an easy time with them, and he knew that she had struggled. there was an innate knowledge that flowed through him - an understanding - that spoke of when others would leave. he had felt the urge to turn away from what had been given to him, too. to leave seemed normal, but he didn't understand it from her. 

all good things had left him, though. wasn't it only fitting that the woman who had aided in his raising was turning her back on him? he had imagined that there would come a time when he would no longer get his hopes up that those he cared for would stay. he reflected on the loss of his father and knew his mistakes in growing attached; it was foolish and it served no purpose. the world had already shown him what it would do with such vicious folly. illidan knew that he should not have been surprised.

instead, he battled with the emotions within his mind and heart and he sought her out. he knew that she could not have gone far – that even covering the territory was challenging to do in a single day. his long limbs carried him swiftly across the plateau and out beyond where their markings reached. he was short of breath, but he still searched for her familiar frame with haunted, yellow eyes. if he had missed her passing, he would have been furious with himself.

dipping his head to sniff against the earth, illidan thought he might have caught a whiff of the elusive woman just before it seemed to vanish from him. he cursed, drawing his crown upward and furrowing his brow tightly over his gaze. how could she leave? how could she turn her back on all the things that had been good to her?

how could she abandon him...