Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWwzioytuw
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEXe05JnVxC
holding her posture.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7PYLFRSo7
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE23IZyvyGs
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZ8PHpQN8f
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEuBwBWj48
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthHiZKzEWn
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5HPKVyvRW
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO00DWxOVpR
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkK7GgFiuhL
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKUWHZWxrw
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvYDcrUAWW
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6XrmDkL6G
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyOFA9tsAk
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTeyZB3UXP
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwApTOcgJ1S
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxjZbdLDxwT
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rxSJhGwUl
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJLKhqrNhR
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrP3FsWA1ei
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkXa6dyB9W
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAdFpcAcw4
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZlzIX2R2x
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1i6XwawfC
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kmSZMco5B
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Oqzl0UdDg
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFBjQb316k
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJaVdtBMcK
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sl48w5lKC
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75LWXuFfrG
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbHAuNd84T
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTuu0yuYGZN
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATzXw6zPvb
at them...413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSm2yzq0rU2
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2MHldnjFD
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4vue3BgO6
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDKaqeYHBN
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3ZhxtFb1V
fancy any of it?”413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm4UQSbcqpZ
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqS4ByXyZX6
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYwMT2BiCZ
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbfMpErzPf
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH05MXL8Am6
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNeadJr9aPe
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbdy7C8gzX
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6OoNTr28j
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmKQaTEle6
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpSOzHsGjj
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfYqqHWNcu
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnw0kgxRSgU
it as it really is...”413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5N25V9dbog
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJ3U9Ua1TI
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdId0UhZnsJ
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLiHbEjzOD
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg8ChRHNOHY
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhDK1xcrBm
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NJYb4wZ4w
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxY8Gb7vOMD
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgqRWLLzx2
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ0uDsSMdXX
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dA8c3pHb6
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGghqKj0vSn
than I would like to count.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0o6UrFqrI
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHyXQIO0Jr
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlluAOzQ7dM
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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