Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1w9hXbnaRP
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSy6ExJKrme
holding her posture.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4S0Rys1VO
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4Sz08gjRj
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5M9Z3cB9vK
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpFtfb8FTX
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadhJr9VmG4
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIyjgSFE3ed
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdiyWejgERd
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGnIlNAhKi
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSRIK600kcI
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDd9VbRjka
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFApb5S8bEN
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BKSaI0Xzw
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Fh1PQ4V8M
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFxMmwrDHjm
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80Vk4p7UOP
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmHdefSZZ6u
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhDLa2Rd2H
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9IHlvDN99
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69vBxWSm3U
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOUgx6rBOL
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HjgAMLdjA
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcakpWD9epB
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOkoGzBn8O
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFDxcaEZbeq
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7sTy4Vnvo
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIYPN3Nup6
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJE9xGKaDZ
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfmPHhSe2a
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt290kQNfLy
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0rIzhjhCTh
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4MiSP4PUM
at them...322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdoblsgjNA
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCqnYP79A3
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54toWEZtvp
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwR3E6pfE1q
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6xyPjqgd2f
fancy any of it?”322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fuf2EFWDj
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVP88oUMwc
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv1m99vJUVA
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9MVXIrvPc
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Gfsqqz1z8
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41u4HLXTQf
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPqKUAIdI8
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbpTr6MUTn
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wxftrW7pa
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gQL8LqFhO
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyYVXpAlt6
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzeiPTT6t8
it as it really is...”322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvuvuw1rtcl
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sG340f2EI
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQI5VwQl4W
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7cDdhxD8MS
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtckh4mf4h2
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLX1Ol75V6
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk80hcIYtqv
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXRKtZuyEx
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDH1jUbOpiX
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CAHtYZfwg
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVO5yQhO3T5
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1qU50hGdD
than I would like to count.322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxKWA2xrU6G
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dsntECvh7
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there322Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ912ZJp9VkM
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
and then Add to home screen.