
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.