
After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those422Please respect copyright.PENANAHnGvnG1ffK
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a422Please respect copyright.PENANADloXQeaiCO
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”422Please respect copyright.PENANADwiqLSWjeJ
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another422Please respect copyright.PENANAvhi6vHdZIQ
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would422Please respect copyright.PENANAihijUxucLx
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...422Please respect copyright.PENANA94n0SNNLFo
“She disappeared?”422Please respect copyright.PENANAmqFlZ0LdGD
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.422Please respect copyright.PENANAzXGktd9CNB
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.422Please respect copyright.PENANArOYcHb7rNO
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.422Please respect copyright.PENANAPrAniNRday
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have422Please respect copyright.PENANAmijvB7oa5T
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions422Please respect copyright.PENANAY0EWzlNcCc
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me422Please respect copyright.PENANAXpo1CvfYVr
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with422Please respect copyright.PENANAh6hz9b9w5L
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as422Please respect copyright.PENANAeIEBcOillz
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps422Please respect copyright.PENANAYmGMYnJil7
brought everyone starting to follow him...422Please respect copyright.PENANA5rYBlFlDke
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had422Please respect copyright.PENANAdSdzDtb80S
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north422Please respect copyright.PENANATJESyBqIwQ
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a422Please respect copyright.PENANAzOUn78UFlp
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone422Please respect copyright.PENANARPLrgmYWtU
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade422Please respect copyright.PENANAvdWpBpf0Rc
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?422Please respect copyright.PENANAJlLd8euCMw
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch422Please respect copyright.PENANABQO7zNYBrd
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.422Please respect copyright.PENANAEXtl4Ox0eQ
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.422Please respect copyright.PENANAPyMlca9rsF
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of422Please respect copyright.PENANAlPMjtTCIbY
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper422Please respect copyright.PENANAM0VXfZnS3g
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us422Please respect copyright.PENANAwXw9UusghS
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget422Please respect copyright.PENANAaAYfyPZYIJ
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say422Please respect copyright.PENANAn3L7BRLClI
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to422Please respect copyright.PENANAO1WbHA4ylU
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all422Please respect copyright.PENANAn9toSOZynO
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,422Please respect copyright.PENANAPgLd3O2HC8
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging422Please respect copyright.PENANA507xmxZMay
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.422Please respect copyright.PENANAYZnIze3cuH
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say422Please respect copyright.PENANAtFBbkgqvOI
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn422Please respect copyright.PENANAFBOlVsXz3Q
of what had transpired during the night.422Please respect copyright.PENANAs0LMwdkeVA
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that422Please respect copyright.PENANAWkarOxl4wr
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.422Please respect copyright.PENANAQ8bQcmudOl
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our422Please respect copyright.PENANA8qLuHwPxak
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for422Please respect copyright.PENANAPHmjAcShmG
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went422Please respect copyright.PENANAh7HGDio3LJ
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that422Please respect copyright.PENANALh7Pbo4TKE
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be422Please respect copyright.PENANAzVyGj72wSl
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.422Please respect copyright.PENANAC9aVCJj8Lw
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?422Please respect copyright.PENANAkBLrz9Qzfz
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own422Please respect copyright.PENANAv9V6a945hN
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt422Please respect copyright.PENANA9KIt0GujXE
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but422Please respect copyright.PENANAfFSaW8jfbO
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed422Please respect copyright.PENANAm50Iiir0XL
and what intentions drove her.