After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those111Please respect copyright.PENANAQbddtU3EoG
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a111Please respect copyright.PENANAIPuIfaSu3n
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”111Please respect copyright.PENANAaGo7aN8o9d
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another111Please respect copyright.PENANAHx7EkGPags
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would111Please respect copyright.PENANAIfw2l3B3bu
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...111Please respect copyright.PENANAKlHu3Kssft
“She disappeared?”111Please respect copyright.PENANAmRNEUlpXX6
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.111Please respect copyright.PENANACxjX3lGaf0
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.111Please respect copyright.PENANAF4JS2zvhSX
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.111Please respect copyright.PENANAvPiqTAFG7x
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have111Please respect copyright.PENANADRLJ1QBDei
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions111Please respect copyright.PENANA5uRaegWAhH
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me111Please respect copyright.PENANA5Tck1B8LqY
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with111Please respect copyright.PENANA5XhqSrBSql
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as111Please respect copyright.PENANA1E2L3BcZ3l
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps111Please respect copyright.PENANAVMASwh1NfX
brought everyone starting to follow him...111Please respect copyright.PENANAvaoC3f46pA
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had111Please respect copyright.PENANAuPR9efcoOF
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north111Please respect copyright.PENANAg9D7tdSVCn
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a111Please respect copyright.PENANA1imUJ83M5e
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone111Please respect copyright.PENANA2Xe5Klr180
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade111Please respect copyright.PENANAfr7cIhgf4c
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?111Please respect copyright.PENANAczI0MZfRnc
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch111Please respect copyright.PENANAr40ZBFAxlZ
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.111Please respect copyright.PENANAfaA0ipxmLt
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.111Please respect copyright.PENANAUpy1ckNvQO
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of111Please respect copyright.PENANAlc6ya6eY2R
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper111Please respect copyright.PENANAFKkyKQT31h
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us111Please respect copyright.PENANApk6FY96a0d
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget111Please respect copyright.PENANAhqYEx3FRIQ
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say111Please respect copyright.PENANArTLKsvRqjX
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to111Please respect copyright.PENANAktp2KzEkp4
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all111Please respect copyright.PENANAg6tp7q7cSg
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,111Please respect copyright.PENANAAXDJKdmaC9
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging111Please respect copyright.PENANAzw5mqkWzmL
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.111Please respect copyright.PENANApBProE7Qx1
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say111Please respect copyright.PENANABBQ6gZhHkQ
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn111Please respect copyright.PENANAXWrkw7FexZ
of what had transpired during the night.111Please respect copyright.PENANACiq1ZdGJNY
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that111Please respect copyright.PENANAnQOlAnr334
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.111Please respect copyright.PENANArNY1yN7H2h
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our111Please respect copyright.PENANAJFnIWaDBm2
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for111Please respect copyright.PENANA3CwxpczNLO
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went111Please respect copyright.PENANAuZwWIHw49N
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that111Please respect copyright.PENANArjvC3Nz2Zt
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be111Please respect copyright.PENANAHi8gznaeEU
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.111Please respect copyright.PENANA5PKYJ1cS69
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?111Please respect copyright.PENANArL8n58x17Y
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own111Please respect copyright.PENANAvcyAPRzNu0
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt111Please respect copyright.PENANAMUEUzXHqzR
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but111Please respect copyright.PENANAL6LGkFnSSZ
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed111Please respect copyright.PENANAGRbU3mKTDn
and what intentions drove her.