Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdmcm4V0FL
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtedFIk19l
holding her posture.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOB2TSsggI
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf87J0jhe0a
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4sbHFHEORe
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWJfwTwVMh
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRglkzE8CAF
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtREYgKmJh
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0SpAFRtzSs
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQm93AtpCh
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0yZz4oPWn
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtDbcuy5Gv
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFCbjPkJlVs
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCicOAtUy3p
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9yF1KQrEk
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMJyQEy1Vo
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7c4ogZEDI
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnidXfHbJ77
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBLbAILurP
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoqHt76GxM
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wORYl4eCM
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DF7lIWKPb
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXGQtrlChCh
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhqG3K3MfB
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJGOmM99le
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPW5hPhhQB
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzdOx3yp9B
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9fTAvbV5t
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXWYN3rOrc
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTOtu6dqLuC
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZI8azOsBB
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVSSmCBA4M
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlL1pBa1eQQ
at them...399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzF4PMae0ai
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVZmotuutY
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbC4xbPnvP
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhAkXyedI8
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGU06jP4nN1
fancy any of it?”399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguQav3lTEr
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNU3fpGMCB
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXNKTYKcGU
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3wNuFAQjA
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtETnOyRIt0
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3zIpxXAn7
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupLwD1F6ua
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOagiY2GwQ2
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1P7E3WebrL
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVVJdjzBUr
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRWe0zo32J
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjo8TPB6dK5
it as it really is...”399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIQ23LhGWLf
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYuRqcuE7q
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqSyUkWaHW
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORyIpt2zwH
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3ebyRAjMA
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbDlGOAkN8
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWISa5Yv32E
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8N8dvXDDB
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyz1xAJSBg
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYtnsmPSxI
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvg4gv1gFrO
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmg8npSnyGn
than I would like to count.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0Egf3uhlL
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVcFwiAX1d
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡayPVDwZCZq
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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