Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdGd5nMcPk
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRL1Urp0nx
holding her posture.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHGyYQaRWCe
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKxI76R4lW
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kGYBMPcFN
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRkFdALkzt
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5MrawMR4K
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUln8aFNMRr
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLFQ4xmOH9
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIIQuX70ES
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xvCouOT1r
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dkCJWVvA2
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBeFoA6El1
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcSUz5xZfo
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYNPuhUtrmX
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hUDqu1rxp
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCe4diLMlz
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZWvj1yaln
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwGuroJdkz
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCZMBKdHGQ
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7AA7V8TfI
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3GL8bDeTE
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEvKqQpMceO
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpAMIFCrdz
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyMb6NpxNB
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRi7qe5TNYg
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTyt2wPM7n
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8WAiy6f8m
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GTcTykWBv
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWoPY4Repu
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡddagPOucch
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxBuKz8uFO
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16jI7082pE
at them...321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TWiCJT3CX
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4GA4wfvzW
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqpPa72IbT
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhbUnRYJuP
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTz8NvDHG9c
fancy any of it?”321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JVO6sX2o5
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IG62etkli
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtKhTHfY89
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPN4RrHeBcQ
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU43pLIPZ6y
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSHc9zDhd2
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYohxjldIc
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsivXWyYyZB
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5SFdVuFfSs
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdL4CW7Ldo
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvxgnt1Sw4
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDcd0vANaG2
it as it really is...”321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWrbJ0aWoJ
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiOMeGZBL7
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbcHg3WYsVQ
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHyCyVB7Mdo
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmnxO48vPj
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrPdwDdrAs
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3LpoYQtJJ
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx0QlRi7Tj6
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzrR7knVpa
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvSwPhNPS1
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4QfA7zc3nV
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEz3paTuRu
than I would like to count.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWOBFTFAxH
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeafE6KfJa0
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevI8m5wqQO
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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