Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3l9ohAaeZF
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDBfRhJg2w
holding her posture.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgU0QXReq6
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRn2pmLG3D
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwR9KDm2M8M
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpyCyqcb7rn
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPqCiXMwfk
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQ7Uczc41W
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdt0ZkmRB2
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJbOMLacEd
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcal258KJn
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7DTLmooRXW
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvQ38EFn27
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3l5dPHuiD
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQM383tsnyf
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6E9miCsnu
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ACCB6ofsd
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxNDhaqM3P
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYv95lMCnr
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9ZcAOwZPU
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPAEeRMydg
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrYAZvOC7C
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNW2NVvtCg
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFR9rLM4iEw
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ItBRBFiRK
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8XJCkPAfI
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvYiGi5JhWz
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwqcmWB0M0
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuwo1bwfX2
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YCb8mLSzv
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpigbePfXKl
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZoXgEFPyH
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNOd1NETOUM
at them...294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5r7q4s88qr
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtM0KYi2xk
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdi9taKkleV
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZ53xsnLiM
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFocic96Yb
fancy any of it?”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6j8lLNHqYT
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5WVJKSwV6
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByGkQIUUmY
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmi7CIoiq9
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHZyxHqEV3
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEg1u49jAK
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6pjVEMWGa
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOaBaLy5g6M
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMk7hNG17e
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdIRtQPjOYV
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5BZrOJUjE
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuiUf0b5sGl
it as it really is...”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXP5JKI5VN
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiiWB80I8ef
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomYp80vGE8
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2xLlbnCqp
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckV8tbt3Fq
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaioW9VTEH
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXTfNkNEgz
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYtDbL8090
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRuROe1QiSy
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0dXDguzD2q
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LhyC8KJBl
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6XRNw39Myo
than I would like to count.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vPKRJROMw
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpv5PlnY5yC
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3e1zqEi8m7
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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