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After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMx4URkfFAy
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTpqoIO56UD
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILWIjwPpzh
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMOYW8svM6
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKcUn7lm4cs
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNBA5YFhTk
“She disappeared?”418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL39t9peAyK
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TncFC1sbw
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0raBVlT5E
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxX3YfMlXBx
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrmFRWBEKq
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkUm21ImUi
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynoe5CQgae
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15jaMQteeH
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ8Snj7kiwS
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8p1XuY7ga
brought everyone starting to follow him...418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaDABa4Mnk
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwXnEc1kHF
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk0yjOZYcdV
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjN72uTYWM
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0K5avYImo
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JiZRCO0gZ
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8u6nEkRH8
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrr2eZ0oEgm
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dNdc3J8DV
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HlGoKlnzN
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8zvrIllkt
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpvsZvEKLKy
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnG2BysElgc
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhoDAXnOUE8
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanNDoGTSp2
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2Q6PFThrg
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ5mC61bmQJ
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4sOEeLEy3H
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX06DPJkmUf
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQ8d4qETwL
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNP4r2kKjZX
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRm2ucT19t
of what had transpired during the night.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEvkVACkfO0
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWpRlMJ0NvH
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1gY3J6Rj4B
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8OUYcGgjGM
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwTGmun2hZ
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjG28XkkUCs
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUxfzC53Qh
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi81R9qumfI
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Slfmijroa
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtId6W0fzmF
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydbZgNwdTZ
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQE229dFD3
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJSuRv320I
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed418Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9G2qkZg48s
and what intentions drove her.
