After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those108Please respect copyright.PENANADZ4beCLOta
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a108Please respect copyright.PENANA11Rukj141d
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”108Please respect copyright.PENANADmyCgCpD7Z
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another108Please respect copyright.PENANAX5gW7kCTkU
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would108Please respect copyright.PENANAIAiMfCw0Bp
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...108Please respect copyright.PENANAgMUyIePvYN
“She disappeared?”108Please respect copyright.PENANAlJXJcdza3n
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.108Please respect copyright.PENANAGT8LMQxhaL
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.108Please respect copyright.PENANAEdUfDL7Ojs
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.108Please respect copyright.PENANAeCot1nsmb9
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have108Please respect copyright.PENANA2tr43TCNFC
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions108Please respect copyright.PENANArKMQrdBJhT
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me108Please respect copyright.PENANAf9qHUiWMCD
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with108Please respect copyright.PENANAGxjcyi2B9K
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as108Please respect copyright.PENANAQh6XmSOukj
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps108Please respect copyright.PENANAhJPM4Fvutr
brought everyone starting to follow him...108Please respect copyright.PENANAL5TzTaucyH
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had108Please respect copyright.PENANAIZVpDDjiPc
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north108Please respect copyright.PENANAXonVXqBnoK
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a108Please respect copyright.PENANARDeDMHGOEH
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone108Please respect copyright.PENANAlpW9R34lUF
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade108Please respect copyright.PENANA8t1LTcsxfJ
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?108Please respect copyright.PENANA3PhSmp8ZpG
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch108Please respect copyright.PENANAVotg7iwZJv
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.108Please respect copyright.PENANA9yqLLtx8cY
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.108Please respect copyright.PENANARpF9KOGtdw
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of108Please respect copyright.PENANAM3WMx2nqXk
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper108Please respect copyright.PENANAZbfpAATXJU
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us108Please respect copyright.PENANAWVYtXcPdq1
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget108Please respect copyright.PENANANtblPv20iW
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say108Please respect copyright.PENANAGhVoUbBQxY
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to108Please respect copyright.PENANAaYnCVIUIzR
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all108Please respect copyright.PENANAFTD1elHPFN
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,108Please respect copyright.PENANAiO2FwUElWQ
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging108Please respect copyright.PENANAhHJq3nLtfO
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.108Please respect copyright.PENANApTa8U3amQk
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say108Please respect copyright.PENANASFqEZXOKc8
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn108Please respect copyright.PENANA7KweNLXGBM
of what had transpired during the night.108Please respect copyright.PENANAv4ippDhGFK
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that108Please respect copyright.PENANAdCNCRDWlvC
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.108Please respect copyright.PENANAxz4WgvYdMF
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our108Please respect copyright.PENANA67WW3FORSw
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for108Please respect copyright.PENANAmCJIWXZcPm
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went108Please respect copyright.PENANAsPsr5xBXPS
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that108Please respect copyright.PENANAJuiejHM1tf
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be108Please respect copyright.PENANAcZ38vcN5us
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.108Please respect copyright.PENANAGNdrx3lPEn
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?108Please respect copyright.PENANAVHceLj9b8u
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own108Please respect copyright.PENANAQXGfP6UKn0
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt108Please respect copyright.PENANAfVwgBYWndF
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but108Please respect copyright.PENANA8egYdU2TPL
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed108Please respect copyright.PENANAHYQZ3AVqED
and what intentions drove her.