Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KhZoWrMDx
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOe1L4v9XdQ
holding her posture.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bu63x8G9w
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡChJoDXGApE
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡybZ7JZxTzY
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8paFVehzT
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqt5hky7KC1
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ZVvluvTD8
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdi7WwzuoC
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXggfF6tD6
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuwO690bVyO
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvrEpG3HFI
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUJCFXCbQJ
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlMOVRmIxCR
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotsCOn19IG
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAiFOZHtRmx
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTh6hCyJVlM
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf26j33n5Ey
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVrkXP02d8
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuz3jyOJ1K
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7h0HySOGQI
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNiKwQUhVCE
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EGkeIuiRl
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9lJ0lHd9u
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4DlPl1TYMi
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qpW4FnQt1
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJDyB3iRhH
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdOBGTwiSn
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDb81DFakmi
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoS9O2pbvJ
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmvTovhalv
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWtyhBAUpX
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvf0JkpJnUM
at them...366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtf9We0uI8
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8oexRs4icC
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYf0WMDYjP
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAcyaoMeqt
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXT5edLdb0
fancy any of it?”366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuakVL54c8s
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcES07O5i3z
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4JGf6yH7B
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmeQDA3dbpY
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdsPn9nb58
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbUb0hYDLe9
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KbdJE8t0b
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhIZ6c8etT
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3XSQwRta3q
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQFlxlEP1P
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQfevaTvDp
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAMZ1F9Ip4
it as it really is...”366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDRFiJ1g6u
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyaeWlAxUEI
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4AKlWPRIf
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlituuIsiu
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8doNjnyrJ
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGvbfwfHk5
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRldXuaQRj
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAglXxXusu
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOEJuGEaGAT
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5703NfqhGd
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkB36vKw764
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7d2xnJ3B5g
than I would like to count.366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiRel3O1gp
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7mvkODJYv
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there366Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4oivTn1De
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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