After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those103Please respect copyright.PENANAhA3NnyMrE3
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a103Please respect copyright.PENANAQCqPOSzOVa
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”103Please respect copyright.PENANA99uJ0lblZM
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another103Please respect copyright.PENANAPtFqH5tmFy
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would103Please respect copyright.PENANAr6B60qQVE2
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...103Please respect copyright.PENANAy1QuJrvwke
“She disappeared?”103Please respect copyright.PENANAdnDRztFGjB
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.103Please respect copyright.PENANA2T2ZJTsnPS
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.103Please respect copyright.PENANAwxMizsB5Ki
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.103Please respect copyright.PENANA0y5wuvdkat
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have103Please respect copyright.PENANAOdp7mSSfen
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions103Please respect copyright.PENANAjjdhpBk8tB
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me103Please respect copyright.PENANAAnB8X7ILCZ
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with103Please respect copyright.PENANAGSxXulC9pW
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as103Please respect copyright.PENANAP7As6Nfvtj
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps103Please respect copyright.PENANAzlq8kBF7wf
brought everyone starting to follow him...103Please respect copyright.PENANATbqIXyIotN
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had103Please respect copyright.PENANADCptuvjPsS
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north103Please respect copyright.PENANABRoY6jhriI
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a103Please respect copyright.PENANANv4Hl23j1N
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone103Please respect copyright.PENANAHBS5eESWXF
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade103Please respect copyright.PENANAlN4JEsO6rq
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?103Please respect copyright.PENANAtPXMROgSNu
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch103Please respect copyright.PENANAQttntrzBsx
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.103Please respect copyright.PENANATQGUvi88WY
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.103Please respect copyright.PENANAhx1A9nm5ZE
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of103Please respect copyright.PENANABr2dCzpCMM
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper103Please respect copyright.PENANAUpqHHubPDJ
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us103Please respect copyright.PENANAhTINPYKJly
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget103Please respect copyright.PENANA6QLDW8ahaA
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say103Please respect copyright.PENANAKagthcrbf6
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to103Please respect copyright.PENANAVt5zIAgqfz
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all103Please respect copyright.PENANAiLfU34ZkOX
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,103Please respect copyright.PENANAqWAqpINs8E
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging103Please respect copyright.PENANAIOnsh0Toyr
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.103Please respect copyright.PENANAvBRw8nSpe4
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say103Please respect copyright.PENANAmM25fFcByL
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn103Please respect copyright.PENANAmC7sgyCnJi
of what had transpired during the night.103Please respect copyright.PENANAxA3GiZdCED
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that103Please respect copyright.PENANAe7RE6ML5eK
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.103Please respect copyright.PENANAjNyaaGKt7O
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our103Please respect copyright.PENANAnGKI4NUppc
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for103Please respect copyright.PENANAcbRHQCmrDW
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went103Please respect copyright.PENANA4ANve14IFj
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that103Please respect copyright.PENANAe9WbfXYb22
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be103Please respect copyright.PENANAeALisU8Vhu
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.103Please respect copyright.PENANAmFHAnvOxTW
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?103Please respect copyright.PENANAjXQ5IEVggB
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own103Please respect copyright.PENANAfrNoCGEtaP
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt103Please respect copyright.PENANAH296QrM9mc
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but103Please respect copyright.PENANAqEjO7eJcuT
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed103Please respect copyright.PENANAnoXiIFS2f3
and what intentions drove her.