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After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTs9brktXCX
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI15MJbB4dw
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3UVsXGzYU
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmnwuhpo38
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjP3jhLxa4c
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQRRlEubUt
“She disappeared?”310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgiqdH2nLa
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWG4H5aMQX
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sgz9MRoKm
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIkTRfMhNND
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQ9h9TJm89
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanO355dFYY
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGDwwhZtdk
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxaAD5AJJp
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5c5Fy664a
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqND4WntmmF
brought everyone starting to follow him...310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iVNJ28gk1
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvEuwxGr8h
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2lo9EZlya
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsO1XXVJEoa
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3AR0nLxDe
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKxPaVrRse
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70qj4ND56P
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPgWCynwad
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSi0X2MCYZJ
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBakLz964Y9
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWHF7Oym8C
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyyDvFzYOF
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6hz7UPkay
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyf6KCldbSd
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrFS8X4saS
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEvpHMgMKr
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqLpphBYIj
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE9sAerXWZT
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOydFtM4kMD
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcnP7KytWf
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRccvDCMcKk
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIfdsa95rs
of what had transpired during the night.310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZEx2dBkty
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTnTcaIMQd
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnAX2vd81nP
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zaOV5J9Ae
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyrawCdyB5
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcH9wACUZpN
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5eDyROU1R
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7NjOFR4R1
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5cDntZYaRz
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfY3SMhSiSz
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlvNo6Is0P
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sJBaqPOQ0
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6olMN7FB5
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed310Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgLPtdeAry
and what intentions drove her.
