After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those127Please respect copyright.PENANAPY7Uc9BdLG
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a127Please respect copyright.PENANASt76nZsvas
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”127Please respect copyright.PENANASLGbC9LUiK
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another127Please respect copyright.PENANAdOy1t0EgT6
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would127Please respect copyright.PENANAzf2VzWzM34
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...127Please respect copyright.PENANA96irRaaszZ
“She disappeared?”127Please respect copyright.PENANATl26z58stB
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.127Please respect copyright.PENANAjtiHpkSqI0
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.127Please respect copyright.PENANAVNT50CRYvS
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.127Please respect copyright.PENANAgyrETRUZLn
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have127Please respect copyright.PENANA5YptBdw4TD
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions127Please respect copyright.PENANArPE8HEavP2
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me127Please respect copyright.PENANAdBmu25tw4U
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with127Please respect copyright.PENANASEsT919wbF
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as127Please respect copyright.PENANAid30SAEnho
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps127Please respect copyright.PENANAuAd3L33IWC
brought everyone starting to follow him...127Please respect copyright.PENANA0qkbo61eSj
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had127Please respect copyright.PENANAgr2mixynTz
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north127Please respect copyright.PENANAvOrXjPxtZ0
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a127Please respect copyright.PENANAlGwoGhSIEB
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone127Please respect copyright.PENANAKBHFuNtGqd
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade127Please respect copyright.PENANAx6UNd84Vs2
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?127Please respect copyright.PENANAbA2Ff74eWQ
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch127Please respect copyright.PENANAdxuBaVxQhG
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.127Please respect copyright.PENANAwrm3QRoyK4
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.127Please respect copyright.PENANA6ojbmigOdt
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of127Please respect copyright.PENANAIccCyvw1XV
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper127Please respect copyright.PENANAG1vlpWOooM
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us127Please respect copyright.PENANALd2j8hdrK5
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget127Please respect copyright.PENANAeIVzb9ULiE
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say127Please respect copyright.PENANA6bIJTSvy7c
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to127Please respect copyright.PENANAUzbdu7reI9
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all127Please respect copyright.PENANAv9wFJujy5o
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,127Please respect copyright.PENANAzanQzOy8IB
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging127Please respect copyright.PENANAHEaczLU6s1
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.127Please respect copyright.PENANAfX4JT91Hc8
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say127Please respect copyright.PENANAmEmrhk7D5J
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn127Please respect copyright.PENANA2JSCdL5jqE
of what had transpired during the night.127Please respect copyright.PENANAyVwG6uqODg
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that127Please respect copyright.PENANAm9sc9lhyfB
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.127Please respect copyright.PENANAsGgID2PxFb
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our127Please respect copyright.PENANAHlxNyNwTvt
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for127Please respect copyright.PENANARzkufdKQJZ
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went127Please respect copyright.PENANAnwcf65mhNX
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that127Please respect copyright.PENANA2T7hENdKR1
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be127Please respect copyright.PENANAfvNpEKLB8e
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.127Please respect copyright.PENANAaowYfSvbOH
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?127Please respect copyright.PENANAExmdpVhCY4
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own127Please respect copyright.PENANA4HgjNIpXyD
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt127Please respect copyright.PENANAXmDkHZmdup
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but127Please respect copyright.PENANAKSz61N9O1X
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed127Please respect copyright.PENANAAb7U5fEBEx
and what intentions drove her.