After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOU8Otk3LS
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52aCRKhwOi
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1TDqfY9p4
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2q8bdhrbmY
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGsYA5LbGV
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClWZyC4IVP
“She disappeared?”431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZd34cu7iw
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgm9LRLzVY
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkZAAFg6B7
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1KuZHHHk4
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWrTXNhusU
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgb0xNNwst5
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwrrJCZRwC
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe4rQ22aax5
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiP5SLMSJlp
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTxVj3OBjF
brought everyone starting to follow him...431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqBGZ6uE1v
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2yayeWtRE
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9gVfj7hBT7
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQQuIoHImo
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJa47zpadzd
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVHxm0tU6f
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDjgeTBeUY
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJS9AGGUPf
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dVS8Xesov
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjUzqIaiV5
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTe7zneslkG
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjN32BL8QY
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5PEI2zyJq
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXhKYHJgQc
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavMP3wD073
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7DBzqthOk
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTOlSHyw5JS
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Kls4V3k8P
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGNATmi12e
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡigOvWhrivq
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIsCoUVW22
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VBV448qRd
of what had transpired during the night.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhBEuEVBhR
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxmFm6ec7ty
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW5ZYfClKEA
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMv4HqxY8SG
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVay9Jn9Yw
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFvxSnZ4xm
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboEyAhR0zL
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7Vyn2dKH9
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAOAA2d1tQ
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpDQjNnb6p
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ctP602sDg
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFvfMSAyljw
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmt3f2pJPx
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWErAl04Lk
and what intentions drove her.
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