After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those193Please respect copyright.PENANAq4Mg4q09Cy
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a193Please respect copyright.PENANAMHW1wJz2QV
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”193Please respect copyright.PENANAXy4z7Ccoer
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another193Please respect copyright.PENANA0fspgHsdtI
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would193Please respect copyright.PENANAXciNmUuRw0
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...193Please respect copyright.PENANABx6FtUknUd
“She disappeared?”193Please respect copyright.PENANAjVcnvxDHLQ
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.193Please respect copyright.PENANA2nOCwu9rjX
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.193Please respect copyright.PENANAvPfdGq11j3
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.193Please respect copyright.PENANAIX5RoBJ9D2
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have193Please respect copyright.PENANAq2JSR0PlSp
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions193Please respect copyright.PENANAD7Xm3yOEAu
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me193Please respect copyright.PENANAFeoko177Fo
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with193Please respect copyright.PENANAUGAgQkKqy7
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as193Please respect copyright.PENANAoE6uBrDRUv
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps193Please respect copyright.PENANAtMTgyed7W4
brought everyone starting to follow him...193Please respect copyright.PENANAfwKA6RBEik
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had193Please respect copyright.PENANAgqgPEhMBv8
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north193Please respect copyright.PENANAFfATsLiPRU
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a193Please respect copyright.PENANA56sMbELvON
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone193Please respect copyright.PENANA2btsns4Fki
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade193Please respect copyright.PENANActUcAo2fTp
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?193Please respect copyright.PENANARZzEJlWKbL
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch193Please respect copyright.PENANAfkLErE2plu
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.193Please respect copyright.PENANAzRSJ0eQHAK
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.193Please respect copyright.PENANAbqX2lIl5KH
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of193Please respect copyright.PENANAQohRO1xuFp
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper193Please respect copyright.PENANAEVqtn8qTut
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us193Please respect copyright.PENANARjdbpadlmV
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget193Please respect copyright.PENANAlusse9jwWE
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say193Please respect copyright.PENANA9j7b71I634
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to193Please respect copyright.PENANAVj1Ug186tF
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all193Please respect copyright.PENANAsgzDdjxEDX
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,193Please respect copyright.PENANALc0lIxZyV3
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging193Please respect copyright.PENANAFyZ6UlyD7E
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.193Please respect copyright.PENANAeMUhtb7BzB
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say193Please respect copyright.PENANA90cmEiG4Tp
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn193Please respect copyright.PENANAlL7qs4GRit
of what had transpired during the night.193Please respect copyright.PENANA6TCd2svUyb
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that193Please respect copyright.PENANAg1FnHOThBT
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.193Please respect copyright.PENANA3x08L73yDn
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our193Please respect copyright.PENANA0trPd7ew9q
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for193Please respect copyright.PENANAnTaK5MNTLf
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went193Please respect copyright.PENANAA1ePGYClP4
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that193Please respect copyright.PENANAt7PnaCynFK
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be193Please respect copyright.PENANAxyzkxBJw9o
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.193Please respect copyright.PENANAs8yviKJtQf
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?193Please respect copyright.PENANAerCto3ltX8
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own193Please respect copyright.PENANA5HmlTR0Ssc
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt193Please respect copyright.PENANAkMWeFdqAtZ
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but193Please respect copyright.PENANAeJibwpviwg
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed193Please respect copyright.PENANAfPTwYpsZw8
and what intentions drove her.