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After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGlEkxxsgZ
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDaxf6JKdG
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGj6CGz73Q
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXnZiFnjTc
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJsMbDTcFT
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEHnAsPVF7
“She disappeared?”419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlb9P68qYH
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlGJ2xoEdZI
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfp2pkuNFB
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeY2CcU2Hta
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78HczwuKw6
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqslJRWMy5t
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1xnZM3j30
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yk2XZQadt
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwEq0vmd50D
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTaLsTlcj0
brought everyone starting to follow him...419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6crLVo0zH
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87TAnNrmOz
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkaJPL4pFn
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVuww5RbcW
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡosOEep2vBH
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXFt9CLJcr
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUPPsduwst
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxncUNL4g2J
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP7opylR6kG
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3RIWvAw6h
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvVPpgHOqU
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡglgMtgegNP
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHpnYpxReu
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4mF4OXP7H
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiMklLcmUK3
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRMauTvP9G
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡls7Z6oj1Gp
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG75XLon9Hx
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGmQ4AtyeC
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgPcJVRFhi
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguVPaUkWkN
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEX27xeERoO
of what had transpired during the night.419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghsmR00mAP
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkznW6tWUs
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dPlgE9yHx
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztsjvrUsCQ
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8GhBxrtwa
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLneSkTrbb
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuU4QA7Mg2C
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1r3SE1GYF
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wl2lmsCkZ
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAvCMzHiuP
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0EpLSobO0
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xZLvQFsZp
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9brkcFdlPP
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed419Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDw7OCyj4r
and what intentions drove her.
