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After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAtysf44SV
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDtxT3dD5MK
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpBsFRJldi
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ39EakySJgH
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0xxWTRyW2
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprUG2kOg3M
“She disappeared?”337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwaAaHAWMG
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Uvs8b6thY
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Ai584fHIF
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyam69zGbNJ
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVOwYGvnLz
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KJR3pbVFQ
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9J8wJ9lGic
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaq7TsKUdfW
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCwcCWlCqZ
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTotFvENys
brought everyone starting to follow him...337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVSu7rIVbO
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQpvatTIyq
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtfO5q8pGJ
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtlqE2vbNXC
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKcQHmLx6U
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDrB4rzDuRl
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN41TGzMUhx
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmk9ESHJV4r
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCcUoTanQaW
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBI8P5SugWG
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeKt1gWX4D
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4L3TXmBw0d
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xbPIgJnmp
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoUAsm9zLj
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdJG10Rq26
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWuIXPIZRq
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjhjreNFgz
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8enoyjKat
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUyEe0KGwPb
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoyfOLp8bK2
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkiXp0uYkw
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXt7nOOkbU
of what had transpired during the night.337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bo8MPabHz
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxHL4OuPPi
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDDo6VNNNS
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS88OPxcqh9
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrhargTrFFR
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxgbsBHnLh
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75IRjaKWDb
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvGFTzmAbH
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPKW68JsRnb
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75FHpj2Npr
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQt6wnFEjMu
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSGsznjZ0U
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRN6Ad9Txl4
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed337Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHmFesob0k
and what intentions drove her.
