Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9zOFJ5FU8a
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3kDis1v8d
holding her posture.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSS7x1vZQM
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuSTOHgBCf
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡozp7aPJdHi
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4LEXlxgzd
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6MZtmJ6es
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCYTbfDlpo
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHjMQ8CWyk
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3aTfcEokR
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpbH2t7rGD
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5J7q86dmlS
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDoRQBIqRM
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7Lu7JC7TI
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrVeeF9rv3
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Ew8G50tjQ
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyK1xTHN2JQ
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVKQdCxeUT
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Tibr7g0DC
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHTndJB6sv
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcYiporggs
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡED7wSvYZUT
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj85yulc48m
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OPCRQlz8g
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7WpSwEq1pP
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPUdt4MMYi
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEW0kVmOZ2
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ0PmtBO6fk
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLF1nqukoUU
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQiqC2usXn
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlqdd9PhLp
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUBhHvROsd
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGddzsy2tB
at them...265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxU7Pjxkimk
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv5q4PwoBkl
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAiZHYav4H
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj90azp2py9
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXVeUPU9YX
fancy any of it?”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYP5bImI0Mz
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5hcaTMyRJY
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuC6z3SEg9k
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoFvj9r5aM
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnac4PzszXy
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPmkJ6Jt3v
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNLSYXaJHc
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjiGSfiqr5Q
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWRsYkhyoW
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSV4wvDx92g
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡya2KRFtTgp
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdpTwsvmBDU
it as it really is...”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsukiV9RlFL
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMQpRNovXJ
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlq8WFx8w5
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1hNu6F9d1o
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPtiodDUcnG
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGEzRkza6S
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7GWNVRVnSv
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRjVOZ3hph
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzERFzYB2g9
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1lhPFS3Wie
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzBBhZSp4c
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qvd8sLZ5s
than I would like to count.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYh50xprUC
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQ3fbpxKyk
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCajjt720N
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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