Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9FJUbJrMv
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowfdojFk5v
holding her posture.302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFVYBSoRoxK
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILz0hMBxXu
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqX2BXCPRr8
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡioTH3H77Ps
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYj1bWc4Fa7
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRE7s9gdaTu
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZqf5ewpbU
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQqmV3O7CxN
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ozPUW9zde
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsQaQmJMxa
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjomyrsWNnQ
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgiuNTqvkJ
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1UAKM6EtE
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8yqaDyqWqP
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKAsFxGL3w
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nFOm65mFG
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uZJfe7hwF
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdFZdQ8ain
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL88xIRTbvs
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvvnflIaiNE
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8STiVScwo
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1aQ910lkML
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZMR6ukv7h
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWmP6kPI7B
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0hm7orV3w7
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCykevrCLd1
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ868vDlPnur
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3W36PLSys
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfwacgQgc0
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHExo7g2T9
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16nrjtQtBZ
at them...302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXVghX7adz
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuF0YRTEh5p
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXC3elMb5W
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbBuT5BTJ0
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrbIbxLLpZ
fancy any of it?”302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdpcpMW9uk
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxtL2XNkaB
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZ6LMEbU9L
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lLR996ALH
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4oi3VPTeWf
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUY1nCLZcv
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bXw6qmCh1
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETJ5RHiDQE
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElnXwCP1aP
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhEi5DUqLN
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyUR4jt9gs
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JtRoGFtBD
it as it really is...”302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ749bT1Bv05
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyu85jadDV
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUArs8h9ZzE
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dhiP3pO8s
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRdWiEsiGU
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRNErL3tns
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY82rjCMqTf
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmf6rhsoEW
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3igEEFk9hk
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHzXJQf4c8
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMe6iZsve2
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKEA9J5wkA
than I would like to count.302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnUMG0kNohm
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9htr7DGkTp
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there302Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgSsp1cfkw
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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