Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmOBASGZ1I
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL4wHJ0gxpy
holding her posture.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1d7tKi6wTj
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhzMeXSVzEU
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqhsxxahKj
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJqIfBiFTP
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ67EUcGm8ux
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMyhIr4H4a
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzgPwmT1F4
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykdGi0DyEb
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3k3xdwXTbd
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHJfxasOyF
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfzZZbRWzze
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSX6rI7YKsS
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBeaLcK3Sq
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUAJONuz23
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iKQMCroFy
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrs3LFlSVG
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPTKD9GNTL9
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUwBG03OCX
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ONdqNbruN
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5apGshv9kh
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHySFXjvwun
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffyjQUqowz
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVz5pxL92k
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbKbUtStsO
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIndkZfBOHI
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj9VydACzTM
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3BYdts8z84
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0ghP0SWUm
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUThEatoYI
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxvxxS37dI
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWZGDRsxJf
at them...635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT34iwn3giP
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKO77A825Zl
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqv6UcTh8qu
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJfqf0IvpU
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUe09X3Ob16
fancy any of it?”635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83RbVbAuaE
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0ydSuHPwp
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yRweQSAdQ
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPh06paEGvE
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKt4up9InW
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqD9K1DtTu4
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaTyNvkZVv
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkaZbvO3kYU
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJF64yvYU7
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AzfnwXmEa
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzo2H5hAvkX
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDC8bQGkZ06
it as it really is...”635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvMRwK25M3e
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmUp1cJvvF
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKIgKGvbuk
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcQP9FhBVg
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZO83ce5n0
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBShUMvB368
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPPnK0kENI
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ11HRQbH3E
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XcYCkNfzE
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvFs2POpZa
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldYVasGgdX
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlhQuVIYQRO
than I would like to count.635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa20485G7zx
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7Af2M8hQH
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there635Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfDJlSh4Ar
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
and then Add to home screen.