Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljqt49QZLe
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGx2vJBB8K
holding her posture.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0Etboz1KQ
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjKP3wOHAl
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnkhtK8YN5
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gsMxjKrEx
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTC09yUmwE
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRWV6IdY8D
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXlybsH7ECJ
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk11kh9ja62
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6PTfhPrReI
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqVTArUf9S
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDmgWyLZJj
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdR6k2BYAIL
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3p4zDNxp06
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR71D8fN57A
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWTEPKQkld
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNAKXOCnVU
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7xqv6kXiq
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCT2sbVITwO
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVxXVsB0XB
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkZWT0odOs
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4y4QtZ1uF
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCv3eTzZGL
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6WHnAD78tN
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNatNRMvs5
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQagTM6d4BF
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWVqPGQZyu
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGayOSXQlbp
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1SPpWEhVA
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU05kw2nzIs
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQWCi893X0
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARayz1mDD0
at them...588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLeP1gnruPK
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3ZauC36Nf
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UR2IBpWwz
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQODm3YQWK
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9bckqzsT9
fancy any of it?”588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtT3QHCs9VZ
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5LaXaC98B
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWdgvk9lXk
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6TtiIvVTe
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsJst7tcKF
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTXydMWVNv
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25k1mdZ9Rd
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFmjAtr6Dn
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNxcq8KQbh
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqekFX2LrvQ
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Va4WFKCcM
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgyP7QDKEMs
it as it really is...”588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKHYD7mLcZ
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQ78eSgt0s
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGlhJh0JS5
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZ04SwZsTv
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmxijShECJ
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbI6eQbg0g
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvNzKmfKD9
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RvHpuQH0I
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpXk1yPSBa
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHsye40tPKc
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJoZ0Dw76cK
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUyINQglnE
than I would like to count.588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfel3U5dbb
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRRQcADQNx
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there588Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7o7shbLbCR
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
and then Add to home screen.