After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those604Please respect copyright.PENANAhlwSM7thvg
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a604Please respect copyright.PENANATB4hWGbPOS
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”604Please respect copyright.PENANADMzoXwLb1T
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another604Please respect copyright.PENANAYlDXObkD3J
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would604Please respect copyright.PENANAynUNOioVIF
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...604Please respect copyright.PENANAeDRl1bBVmO
“She disappeared?”604Please respect copyright.PENANAwMLQmLYP1x
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.604Please respect copyright.PENANAi6o8SdWa0V
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.604Please respect copyright.PENANAUwJfOtP6qw
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.604Please respect copyright.PENANAkf2AbodNSo
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have604Please respect copyright.PENANADWjglE00tE
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions604Please respect copyright.PENANA0nZFqskf0w
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me604Please respect copyright.PENANAAHHBb3odaF
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with604Please respect copyright.PENANAcrG0Ae2yBe
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as604Please respect copyright.PENANAGpvK9tCHsG
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps604Please respect copyright.PENANABfrTwADyh4
brought everyone starting to follow him...604Please respect copyright.PENANAjgMgsP8zGe
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had604Please respect copyright.PENANA6oTMxpxQE4
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north604Please respect copyright.PENANA5sHcEQyz1H
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a604Please respect copyright.PENANA1Bsrvm0Edx
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone604Please respect copyright.PENANAtUJlSh5HAd
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade604Please respect copyright.PENANA6r9wNtPKbi
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?604Please respect copyright.PENANAFXWba49m34
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch604Please respect copyright.PENANABEAGu86RN1
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.604Please respect copyright.PENANA8TrZUgtkqP
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.604Please respect copyright.PENANAe77Cdk0Wx8
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of604Please respect copyright.PENANAlwQPdmWovP
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper604Please respect copyright.PENANAIHqtm0PbRb
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us604Please respect copyright.PENANAjgbmxToNxo
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget604Please respect copyright.PENANAG4vq0wqLkp
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say604Please respect copyright.PENANAaZzQHV8UpD
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to604Please respect copyright.PENANAtP1N0P5z4M
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all604Please respect copyright.PENANAeuIGEhnZuc
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,604Please respect copyright.PENANA0N40yIQIE5
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging604Please respect copyright.PENANAZ5LX7CYdmj
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.604Please respect copyright.PENANAOeQUFWff87
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say604Please respect copyright.PENANAZkYyede1iO
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn604Please respect copyright.PENANA8vehF42BuF
of what had transpired during the night.604Please respect copyright.PENANAiIKkonTZrA
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that604Please respect copyright.PENANAjtKfWRcMO2
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.604Please respect copyright.PENANAqUiWGxMwhi
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our604Please respect copyright.PENANADJVqKZLMM3
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for604Please respect copyright.PENANADQ308y5QsV
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went604Please respect copyright.PENANA1W8ANDHM82
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that604Please respect copyright.PENANA0jxa2lbR6f
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be604Please respect copyright.PENANAWlf2ze2dct
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.604Please respect copyright.PENANAD8vn6l2yEw
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?604Please respect copyright.PENANA67xAZm8WOX
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own604Please respect copyright.PENANAqsZRorpja7
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt604Please respect copyright.PENANA9TIeLI2Axk
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but604Please respect copyright.PENANApQcdoD8EfX
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed604Please respect copyright.PENANATwEkvvybOr
and what intentions drove her.


