Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNjcpNRtXq
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8PlmuxHJuX
holding her posture.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmvFRzcChA
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDBiS7hZel
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGx7EWORzst
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8v9RXZC5mx
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxfayx6Iv6
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfTpW2mTLm
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswNvJwIjFw
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkP1vEACuSw
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNbrNbhrq2
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGLwikGRHIg
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzlDRoVW8d
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3KzzRebMk
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHyrDBpJrY8
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwkCH86rNR
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MDOHVZTqk
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrN6qhvGro3
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXRg4pzG0A
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKvPnnoyyN6
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtB6ol9eDo
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GkoVOCCGi
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7FEp7Uv90
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViprvFND3D
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwxa3SEgju
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7jbuYkpbc
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4V09FRc1yU
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyk3zkn7ZVu
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRRE8Dx8wP5
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN98jHxWEmw
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnPM02eZfh
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9XL0TkndK
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKJytr6HPg
at them...317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2Br1G4Ezt
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQdFiYKEClr
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIqfSH40rJ
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTKTyFk4kr
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIES8RHc4m
fancy any of it?”317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5W1WKZilRh
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Kg4i9EpuA
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvuBPXvSGz
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCjosuHFnF
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj195S8X5bF
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs3lo1XhRl3
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNhocys4WI
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXGqCSuLCR
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCYhfIiHAP
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6NV51IZlU
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC8Ex7QUFZ1
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWr6RTlGw4q
it as it really is...”317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLE2Cw5mTB
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrzzd9GI3qm
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7c0iJE7Yxu
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3eJ60s2zYB
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFuGTbBDyd
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ioYEpeAIr
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3QKtiPWQiH
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqizCt781t
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSZEOwEziF
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7hBOalIs4
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcD4CiAF1L
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vhDKjvave
than I would like to count.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOJIFeixTJ
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNQyKlad7x
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJeOUSDAN4l
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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