
After all, you Red were the main reason she got to join us in the first place all those440Please respect copyright.PENANAfrCgjZ96E8
years ago. Do you remember? Anyway, one day she just decided to leave without a440Please respect copyright.PENANAP1llKtgyVX
word to anyone and we have never heard from her since.”440Please respect copyright.PENANAlL6oiC3ofB
The clouds and everything below them are yet again flashed with white, as another440Please respect copyright.PENANAaH87EhYYxb
thunderous scream echoes way up above their heads. Red lowered his brow and would440Please respect copyright.PENANAIKcMpMCbK2
take a deep breath before he would dare raise it back up again... slightly...440Please respect copyright.PENANAeO2KHQQHKY
“She disappeared?”440Please respect copyright.PENANAxBdz7YGoow
“It is not your fault Red,” replied Harigar Rhim.440Please respect copyright.PENANAa9bK3PJq6X
“Yes, she has always made her own choices,” added Deena.440Please respect copyright.PENANA6Oz9N5jAd4
“It was just like that huh?” Red insisted while staring back at them.440Please respect copyright.PENANAzmfJmOoKAI
“She was gone?” he asked again, this time facing Deena, and although he may have440Please respect copyright.PENANA6k7TjKHG2J
been staring at one or the other, the truth in its rawest form, was that his questions440Please respect copyright.PENANAIsKqdhupZp
confronted everyone here “What really happened. Can any of you at least tell me440Please respect copyright.PENANA2ZkGBuM1vw
that much? Marce?” It was obvious that the captain did not want to continue with440Please respect copyright.PENANAxUj1p7dnje
this subject and so he immediately decided to bring this to an abrupt conclusion, as440Please respect copyright.PENANAxpgYnclmnE
his final words on the matter began around the same time as his newfound footsteps440Please respect copyright.PENANA1Epwgzi8Ny
brought everyone starting to follow him...440Please respect copyright.PENANAinZyzOPHoD
“One morning we all woke up to her disappearance. She was just gone. We had440Please respect copyright.PENANAXda1IwBf17
decided to spend the night in an inn amidst the frozen lands, way up to the far north440Please respect copyright.PENANAzPtOTshmq7
as we were, of course, yet on another mission. We were forced to seek refuge from a440Please respect copyright.PENANArqGUDLqLKc
sudden storm, and what a storm it was; the flying snow raging, the howling winds alone440Please respect copyright.PENANADMjqxelolQ
seemed like they could cut any part of you left uncovered if you dared to promenade440Please respect copyright.PENANADtJ3Shk3Wy
outside, you remember the aggressiveness of the north don’t you Red?440Please respect copyright.PENANAYcFAqBDW7r
Anyway, conditions were met that forced us to a stop and so we did. I won’t vouch440Please respect copyright.PENANAzeDoZse6eH
for anyone else, but I am certain that few, if any of us, had any sleep that night.440Please respect copyright.PENANAn8c3yswzqU
Not in that cold, not with those raging and screaming winds outside every window.440Please respect copyright.PENANAdefnnMquPj
The storm came to pass, and a warm morning took its place, but besides the relief of440Please respect copyright.PENANAfuOZZyRnuR
a sunnier vista, that rising sun also brought us breakfast and its carrier, the innkeeper440Please respect copyright.PENANAXY8EuHT778
who approached us with dire news. Such a sweet old lady she was. She approached us440Please respect copyright.PENANAkptPORtUo2
with the news that the woman in our party, the tall and pierced one - I’ll never forget440Please respect copyright.PENANA2HAhD0OLqs
the way she described her - had left during the night and had instructed her not to say440Please respect copyright.PENANAGHtz80Tn9i
a word to any of us. We were to be left unaware of her departure till it was too late to440Please respect copyright.PENANAR6fuh6YAbp
try and stop her...”
“That tall woman in yer party captain, the one with her skin pierced all440Please respect copyright.PENANAHI2L5628OG
over and a big spear behind her back, she just wandered into the night. Why,440Please respect copyright.PENANAr6ZEoGtxHU
she disappeared as if absorbed by the storm. Off she went into those raging440Please respect copyright.PENANAPA6op90eO8
white blizzards, the likes which I’ve never seen in all my years living here.440Please respect copyright.PENANAvXo7mbprlr
She left behind only the coin to pay your bill and the instructions for my silence. Not to say440Please respect copyright.PENANAf0cLqLoPnb
a word I was, not until morning came.”
“The innkeeper did as she was told Red, and so only by morning time, did we learn440Please respect copyright.PENANA4JsWZxeQqq
of what had transpired during the night.440Please respect copyright.PENANAttnjAvEA6a
We were all so very exhausted from the hardships we had faced up to that point, that440Please respect copyright.PENANAxzSWP8jzBd
none of us were in any condition to notice someone as skilled as Elistia taking leave.440Please respect copyright.PENANA8jOu4P0UmO
We were too tired to notice most of the things we usually do, too tired to keep our440Please respect copyright.PENANA2MOJKUcclq
eyes open whilst at the same time too tired to sleep as well. It was a strange night for440Please respect copyright.PENANASlG2hED2vv
all of us. We were left behind, speechless around that small table, while Deena went440Please respect copyright.PENANAYn45F6ACoC
out after any signs, but no tracker would have been able to find a clue. Not after that440Please respect copyright.PENANAcTpRmykCuo
storm. Elistia was one of us after all, and one of the Wurad, so no one would ever be440Please respect copyright.PENANASpkF723fku
able to pick up her trail; not unless she wanted them to.440Please respect copyright.PENANAfuQjuXEJf7
So, what else was there for us to do, rather than mourn?440Please respect copyright.PENANAIuDntuPqGp
We had our time of silence for the loss of one of our own, one that left us by her own440Please respect copyright.PENANAeRGZlZocTn
accord, and then shortly after we got back to our duties. I guess we all deep down felt440Please respect copyright.PENANARuqtLfxKKf
or at least hoped that being one of the Wurad, she had just gone back to her tribe but440Please respect copyright.PENANAA4ERTEbrvw
in all honesty, to this day, none of us can claim to know for sure where she was headed440Please respect copyright.PENANAEbAvTBGt2i
and what intentions drove her.