Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecZYmXYEJz
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3alLTJ3eAy
holding her posture.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn7Fs7ilZ0H
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUix1xfhz3M
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGI2nXerOy
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPI4yWH6rw
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUhNEpsCGD
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcP0xILvG8
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTedLyvOxZs
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhhc2bCOcp
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZyESQ48kP
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNEYEbvoc6o
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmR6RVDIvv
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxx3XNxjAAn
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4R0aXjqwB
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcI5BGg4e87
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xjshvxDuQ
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMeFka3v4J2
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNvw2QGtyZ
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIBYdy0DYrM
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ev98HgfYc
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFwy17VLtw
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUVElDwjEq
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsVhfjWX4b
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYMz1s9u4Z
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlisUqIqIK
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGnJvY1ILh
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0EUkZJzks
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoF0PgxbYTR
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCV4iTbkMO1
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hevJ47JIg
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡweq2zd1c3r
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWp4NT3qFvZ
at them...354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4l4PvUK1qr
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuREOWEUKkN
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbseLQ9NW6
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZFNae8HSe
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLt83T9AGa9
fancy any of it?”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdfhGwnU4h
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1sWpIteZE
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDYNoV8ZBpH
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡddg3zMVLTY
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Ek3qbHV0F
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDk7vP9wsQJ
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMw49fFaUW2
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlU3tH2KOXk
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQBsDZVQcx
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32ERqvKAfB
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡniuYKxiDQe
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLDciCDET7
it as it really is...”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRwlY2MnK1
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9rrK869ll
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6SYXAyCRi
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfK7BhHewC
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXWUrA1UL6
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9kVnl8pTq
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEMxyWkgsR
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr7catHVWu7
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLefdstH1Md
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiIEkim1iWA
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9FVKfWBNb
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6tK7vvAGg
than I would like to count.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrm5G9bj1Jj
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡluXROP3CLX
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2LjPMXFpV
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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