Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLdQ9WN3ReP
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspavxEeBAZ
holding her posture.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwrQZArtBH
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTbHPTSFVa
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDp0GyRHLdu
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSeH0ZDRbo
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp18UBgqJKA
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDZPHfcnrb
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVd9fSiXLA
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7x2AYPVhY
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxy5sgoHJ8
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXyxw6YZpH
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQJz7ID3yK
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnuQONs0Ut
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxNYtbJNoJn
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykFV1n1FBu
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuQVZH6IzY
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0X4Wcozb0e
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gG6B14osC
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUO1Y3QvAr
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7z5z9tU0Uh
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpYY8QSpAPo
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdwjiljPBBD
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrJdvyugnA
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbURyQt66I
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7a9QXYTitw
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWSqCEoAo8
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxWc20wZr6
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElGyOTloUb
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8wcZ13Ob7
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5fdtW725T
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStIsUwUTKQ
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMx0VXIMvOd
at them...360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEgA7u0ATp
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNZAeZxasa
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDY7gbpKNyO
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLo1UGXDCo
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡScHSLwJuH8
fancy any of it?”360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlyNSQMRYS
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeI4fdegU7Y
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPSotGU00W
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODnw26Tr0R
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8HKzIqYy5
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMTelitKHr
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfqjktZ1Ir
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFE4ODWLGo
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbk5562lUR
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkNRRHmhjK
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAksHCziHRL
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNqNji6hrv7
it as it really is...”360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIN2u6Ey24
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEdFA9QdFp
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGhR01Jm8XQ
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGA6ojhbW7
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDiFzTu5RcH
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡExmVWlzcwK
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAB0LgNNgt
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkY589OyJwM
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxvdmyu4gZ
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjaabXiOYq
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrReGjuucOW
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfnpFTfLF9
than I would like to count.360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZbvz8LuNS
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtBWM4W8Lh
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there360Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiLKxmBKJF
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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