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After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those137Please respect copyright.PENANAxVF16MeRSq
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a137Please respect copyright.PENANAbYtuNpbL9A
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”137Please respect copyright.PENANAENJ1NWG2vt
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another137Please respect copyright.PENANAnx6I7sHB0v
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would137Please respect copyright.PENANAyiF8qSTgOL
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...137Please respect copyright.PENANAiT3eh0zBWM
“She disappeared?”137Please respect copyright.PENANAjevGafKrsg
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.137Please respect copyright.PENANAklBubQfI1y
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.137Please respect copyright.PENANARtknObYnl1
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.137Please respect copyright.PENANAfWBmnUvX7c
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have137Please respect copyright.PENANAomonqP8Pc3
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions137Please respect copyright.PENANAFPckQSgabG
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me137Please respect copyright.PENANAiDTD2FfLYh
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with137Please respect copyright.PENANA7faiY4v8LP
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as137Please respect copyright.PENANAt03ROLDjx2
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps137Please respect copyright.PENANAhAXxJmDXov
brought everyone starting to follow him...137Please respect copyright.PENANAkd44fXOdrF
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had137Please respect copyright.PENANAg77eNUvz34
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north137Please respect copyright.PENANAEZlG2SDYcK
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a137Please respect copyright.PENANAMmEmSHk37M
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone137Please respect copyright.PENANA7per2wax7e
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade137Please respect copyright.PENANATXTSqHWPKG
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?137Please respect copyright.PENANAqa4YDq4uJy
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch137Please respect copyright.PENANAQjua0R3wFb
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.137Please respect copyright.PENANA9dOz0M4CPU
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.137Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1bxzlh8Os
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of137Please respect copyright.PENANA2DM1CjVqUx
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper137Please respect copyright.PENANAHUzjXuqmrg
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us137Please respect copyright.PENANA4rMJw1b1JJ
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget137Please respect copyright.PENANAnAzx5S3fXJ
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say137Please respect copyright.PENANAgyg1lqZ14u
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to137Please respect copyright.PENANAbg7uNT6al6
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all137Please respect copyright.PENANAxLgHEK4ooC
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,137Please respect copyright.PENANANt6AcCcElF
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging137Please respect copyright.PENANAj9EfZEwu3d
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.137Please respect copyright.PENANAKduH3B4hTP
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say137Please respect copyright.PENANAynBisDcgfy
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn137Please respect copyright.PENANAap7oofitbA
of what had transpired during the night.137Please respect copyright.PENANAcDcutu9gyz
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that137Please respect copyright.PENANAfPecu0YcJ8
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.137Please respect copyright.PENANAvKS86h8iJt
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our137Please respect copyright.PENANACucTya047G
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for137Please respect copyright.PENANALpAeFqnszJ
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went137Please respect copyright.PENANA7ezgfYASq5
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that137Please respect copyright.PENANAdaKiMDqTBs
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be137Please respect copyright.PENANAsNpBBHEPJQ
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.137Please respect copyright.PENANAfme4DQH1L5
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?137Please respect copyright.PENANASMLf93PDZl
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own137Please respect copyright.PENANAKVNNhilE7o
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt137Please respect copyright.PENANABeQy0E4QPf
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but137Please respect copyright.PENANAfVnmFnD3CX
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed137Please respect copyright.PENANAYJZtjvT4pd
and what intentions drove her.