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After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzq4b49EKXj
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSWJTwDeo9
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7aDvA3OLa
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjyFLYOfJqC
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg0aAqVQh98
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTOkt2i6bf
“She disappeared?”421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡca8eHlH2JL
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QAS4TNZ9X
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡetVv4rbmOy
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26fnvJhF7F
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJkQ7tU717
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN0t3ifsQJD
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSKLPztItK0
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefmSEL4J9n
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzBKMFMzbqN
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtDbkKMoPC
brought everyone starting to follow him...421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwO4ZvdVAaA
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zUW31hZqb
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJQh4UGg18
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAq25VNrS9
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiUpg2GT8o
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Yz3pIisJe
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWin1jmLfJ3
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvAfcDa89yq
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTk167fjvbI
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFCt3QK0IA
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6sL4heIpeR
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0NB86flgw
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjX8AiY1Nx
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVb2Hn9uGVd
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycNETgSip0
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlOvUWOUGq
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDM1GPZQxZ
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkCLIoF2Gb
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG2dM93kh69
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzM05ToKeb
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4c99rzh68
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3RLHbvRa5
of what had transpired during the night.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4VhJhecwA
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4IJThQvgB
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDBBIhKapI
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0JDeipOUsA
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkH7Q0TGu4B
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzGYr26iWN
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPKFigkIFR
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4o6mNNbc1
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqhlYlvP5U
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBgxhAdMt6
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5TC7nu8uY
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRAdMmi7VdN
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs8igfYQX7L
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed421Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKF5PrK2Ox
and what intentions drove her.
