Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWl9KwRZNI
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzWUuWYExt
holding her posture.289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXistNx7SpQ
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwTvX236x2
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0AfApq2Qpg
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBduwEiKazL
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDhu8jErlgu
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb171TnD57D
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXAYUgYEF5
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDexVdBRTR
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2xjO9QTzj
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLXgEPvKPO
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDw1sJqhwW
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs79rtorhKY
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSLFSBbsMm
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82EXLzl5MZ
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89OyGPXLJL
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaIL3YE6YH
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlSv7MEkr5
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡebU3jKypDi
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6F40kMOQN0
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuBvg29NrJ
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInY2mWdsz2
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokAes3kS1h
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEf0cakkB71
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zIb3AWMZg
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYj1rBdPcGa
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PZRvg01gj
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjiAkYHyRNR
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1yarGMFYs
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HBnkhryI3
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAubg27V0wk
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡminGgWw52X
at them...289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjYsDqLtfT
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeekq5swcB0
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizU3Vb8Maz
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWJAWMllJ5
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGotIKLNxt
fancy any of it?”289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTsl1WyB9I
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡceXqugtt8y
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjmd3EMZjh
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Eeo5vOdvP
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpiKVKbzy5V
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ846G3gGOmZ
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgf8BLKUQk
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOws9j25lF
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQxCt0A9oe
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9iR5lha9OY
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AvUUVz5Eh
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbsDEUy94vp
it as it really is...”289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMv9K1GDyL
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgzsALwoMh
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSDaVqVHlk
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOTAo6vIVaM
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAeEeruNsC
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEpxB43pev
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjUKan0PlN
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGTG8Ii7g4
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1t9n7W5meY
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3s64WtYFaF
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPy2AP5uny
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhubO7vb99U
than I would like to count.289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8MtDmj2us
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhXpLhrqPj
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there289Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlG8Lrx6S7F
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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