After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeKdNginur
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMYwsTRXH0L
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZCgcIAQJN
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeZlCuWMYlJ
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3Krpl3CWF
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCOyPjumf2
“She disappeared?”437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCg7pNR2c9
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVlolJkRj5
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZadQmN7ws7
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24xVdGJV57
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVi1ND7Bt0F
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhYaZ3H144
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCaJUuYJL4
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tnZP8TGvQ
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVD6dhheao
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIs7PfccfcB
brought everyone starting to follow him...437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKY8WlpTYxy
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWFde7ItbPA
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2G1A7atEZ
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlXbnx09Ko
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInVSV3iMnf
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dvF9ukndE
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfX30UQ4tG
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxWANIDYMn
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgzZd1WbsJ1
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYNxvnmx4H
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQh2CsQTYMf
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaDCHg6c12
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAVr5fjvPa
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkhahhW11c
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL2xUS3QhmT
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbOepHUFpB
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelllcs1NCH
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvfD7JOVCA
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOxdPpPbiO
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14R4Q435Ws
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsvzenk7gD
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZr7exOqmr
of what had transpired during the night.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6yaolaQ8E
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ79Q3CUQZ9F
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dJMKPR75B
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZhRzyjsui
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxVln1XNBUB
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpSP2SpKnU
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5IkIjCI13
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZuGgbGZZv
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV15jlS4qqX
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxejRLSilX
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTM2YnMSso
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxka9oY0e6N
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjaA3FRtcc
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAgldZZIaZ
and what intentions drove her.
