
After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those433Please respect copyright.PENANA8zz39YlTPV
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a433Please respect copyright.PENANANlSjBsWpSI
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”433Please respect copyright.PENANAUOoBSeVaSy
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another433Please respect copyright.PENANAgnquIUCIm6
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would433Please respect copyright.PENANAAhICGefVgW
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...433Please respect copyright.PENANA3ZerTl2Go4
“She disappeared?”433Please respect copyright.PENANAI861RZYgHC
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.433Please respect copyright.PENANAcXDEZYzbla
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.433Please respect copyright.PENANAN1araqnkjB
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.433Please respect copyright.PENANAq6ZVpeFg8S
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have433Please respect copyright.PENANAnpdZNWVvKb
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions433Please respect copyright.PENANANWs2krdymR
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me433Please respect copyright.PENANApuSXVHJbsS
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with433Please respect copyright.PENANAAqNA5bwELP
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as433Please respect copyright.PENANAlWptyR3SyO
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps433Please respect copyright.PENANAqUf1NerdgH
brought everyone starting to follow him...433Please respect copyright.PENANAv5piqSxgxH
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had433Please respect copyright.PENANAKdP4vF8kde
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north433Please respect copyright.PENANAfpdjhdMXXB
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a433Please respect copyright.PENANAwNSo1Ig6pu
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone433Please respect copyright.PENANApcrvZI77No
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade433Please respect copyright.PENANAFkqKo2lv33
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?433Please respect copyright.PENANAoV2Z3bxfsy
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch433Please respect copyright.PENANA1eSTPkmffM
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.433Please respect copyright.PENANAXev4Mim3Dm
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.433Please respect copyright.PENANAFFUtqMJhSK
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of433Please respect copyright.PENANAZr1Deu9cpF
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper433Please respect copyright.PENANAszjZSUe5gY
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us433Please respect copyright.PENANASSEBlPQkhs
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget433Please respect copyright.PENANAPH8wRioXTT
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say433Please respect copyright.PENANAIU0qxMf4pS
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to433Please respect copyright.PENANAOf2gLC900V
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all433Please respect copyright.PENANAVu27dKRgQB
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,433Please respect copyright.PENANAyoORVzFEa6
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging433Please respect copyright.PENANACYDNQxe9VH
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.433Please respect copyright.PENANAarfWk89QFe
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say433Please respect copyright.PENANAsOG2O4RxUT
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn433Please respect copyright.PENANAsNZdNRscM6
of what had transpired during the night.433Please respect copyright.PENANAu0NTr2R6iM
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that433Please respect copyright.PENANAjGglI2TtWn
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.433Please respect copyright.PENANA6T5jPqzDpI
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our433Please respect copyright.PENANAmElN5Ih5hm
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for433Please respect copyright.PENANAKlWh23jQWW
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went433Please respect copyright.PENANAUVyUjzc7T6
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that433Please respect copyright.PENANAVSJHykJbxp
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be433Please respect copyright.PENANAOvglzGQt62
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.433Please respect copyright.PENANAe83sbvwqzF
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?433Please respect copyright.PENANATawEXsdPOx
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own433Please respect copyright.PENANAjEvSwk2vOP
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt433Please respect copyright.PENANA1FFJvavccI
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but433Please respect copyright.PENANAI87kBHSJcL
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed433Please respect copyright.PENANAYrN6Vvljci
and what intentions drove her.