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of a falling out or lack of interest, but because real life has

sucker punched him in the gut. There is little if nothing at

all I can do to help him in real life, but in his absence he

has left me to run his guild. At first I thought it wouldn’t

be much different, we had been running it as a team for

years now an official change in leadership wouldn’t mean

anything significant. Not when he returns and we continue

on business as usual. But as the weeks turn to months his

return becomes less and less likely. The guild continues

on, playing the game as we always have but things have

changed. The guild has entered a new chapter as my style

of leadership adds a new flavor to the direction it was going

in. It is not something that is bad or good, it simply is what

it is.

As time goes on, new members join. They see me as

the Guild Leader and they don’t know the previous one,

my friend. But I remember. Especially when I go back to

Draenor, we often hung out at the Teluuna Observatory in

Shadowmoon Valley. Sometimes when things get stressful,

or when I feel nostalgic, or miss my friend I go there and

just… sit. I think about all the fun times we had, all the

memories we made there. I can’t tell you how many times

we had Dazzling Rod games and have fallen off the edges,

often to our deaths trying to not get hit by the other person,

or guild meetings that would erupt into chaos because they

would show up while we were doing that and join in. While

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