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After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6yp9EyZvE
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSG34VPz9hw
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhrsQeHhyH
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1eWIGdCpaK
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHDBiDMXZo
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVAWL25PgX
“She disappeared?”326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEfOclFa5x
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLHdB7W8B3
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxLJ9pgXvo
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGkp74a1t2
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBlXPbxkuJ
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTvLGyuHvc
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhyZeC6N1F
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtNPI7yfq2
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsG66dIXhDy
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8K8hsFhy4
brought everyone starting to follow him...326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFByjGSr5qt
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03Tb7aFpQ8
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9J5LP8Y23x
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdTTVsQEC8
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCc5Txgz4p7
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KbCXJJit5
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGA5m9Scist
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIZaqqrWc1
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJZoaNfSL5
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IikFMSMwW
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGxqBZzKB2
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWftqvPDk4
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGuGrpPchxR
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdg4zSIguPo
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGPuYfLNPr
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1WADBukBO
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCCGAwhXWX
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBIQqLsf2q
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1l9jidEvZd
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCsuDkqakP
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8zTGDPFF9
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEl7F9sGcVT
of what had transpired during the night.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCUuE9IZT4
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5mPpTIAlt2
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJXDxkgsYv
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqyX2YNPt6
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIx9F2Ki1B
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRiK6NP5LiZ
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJ16l1Co3Q
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3I82bTWmRk
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYABoLgp2G
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj88oh9ljgH
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXb45H3cEHM
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhKmc5I3xG
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6M2AsWpyJ
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5sQuZT2TWv
and what intentions drove her.
