Harigar Rhim offered a quick pat on the shoulder and Deena a short smile but one369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdBjxRARqT
that seemed like it had a long time coming. She had a harder time than the others in369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2vBwROTaS
holding her posture.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAN6EcWrXTZ
“Celle, Lorian... this is Red.” Dhanel Marce introduced him in such a short manner.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSKvZkRyne8
“He is an old friend of ours and a former member of the Hand.” The new figure was369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIZJPJsihh
a bigger man; slightly taller and larger than any other here and as he pulled his blue369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstqqtW0rBd
hood back, he revealed his red hair and his red beard. Both coloured in vivid, almost369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXtxAtXVZi
flaming tones as if they were trying to match the very flames on his back.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcneMl0EMsJ
“What are you doing here? Answer me.” Celle takes a few steps forward.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwc5hLqnHB4
“You could say I still live here...” his voice matches the rest of him, deep and steady...
“No one lives here...” she insisted.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiso3J24cpi
“That is enough Celle.” Dhanel Marce requested.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnJeM7fxZF
“Down girl.” Red did not care how much he could infuriate her; instead, his eyes369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjGgqmIRTx
were now turned to Lorian, the quiet and more aloof of the group “And you?”369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyCVJkh8UF
“...” the silent companion looked instead towards that mountain...369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbObHuEjGMb
“Not much of a talker I see...” Red looked at him from hood to boot “I like that.”369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26PwOthpZL
Celle insisted: “Sir who might this haphazard figure be?”369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6mfEMtPsYZ
“Disobedient and rude...” Red barely ever looked at her, and he didn’t seem fazed369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0iPzPweLg
by any of her words or stares either “So is this what you drag behind you these days?”369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcudk4JEoK
“Everyone here has definitely earned their place” Dhanel Marce manages to halt369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNe7acFIstN
Celle right before she can sneak in another word “just as they did in your days...” he369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDttdfRDbtW
smiles “that hasn’t changed my old friend. Nothing has really.”369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dfkRP1m7v
“I am not so sure about that.” Red keeps looking around at them, one by one...369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHdf0Q82UQ
“Sir I must intercede, we should not...” but Dhanel Marce cut her off once again...369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyfirBmqi6
“Celle, please...” he asked... “Celle here became your replacement Red, after... well,369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTIU2Ct5s8
you decided to take your leave of absence, and she has been exerting the same position369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD03GMmp05S
you did from day one. Needless to say, she is most capable and very much worthy of369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuzbqhoFmz
such responsibility as my second in command. She holds my utmost confidence.”369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHisr1E0UEy
Perhaps the captain of the Hand said these words with ambiguous intent, so at the369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj9KQN2CbCl
same time safeguard himself against any further implications from Red, as well as369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4JOGj9iyb
to prevent any falser steps from Celle. Or perhaps he did not see that far ahead and369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbVa6bizwf
simply told the truth, regardless of it worked both ways even if only for a short while.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxaaEZyJqzL
Red looked around once more and then his eyes stopped on the other two; Deena and369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOpz6uDy1gL
Harigar Rhim whom he has been friends with for a very long time, he looked straight369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4kNrqoRVY
at them...369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdd8s4GyKb
“No promotion for any of you I reckon. Not a single sample of acknowledgement to369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjpaPTvy7M
those serving long before this one came to join. She just tagged along and immediately369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0JBft2Jzoz
started running things? I wonder if your king might have found himself a new369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rrei2mzzb
favourite...” he pauses a bit as he easily reflects Celle’s harsh stare “So how do you two369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGPsnNCxbr
fancy any of it?”369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUvVetqg2t
“We all have our orders Red...” Dhanel Marce concluded before any of the others369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYdt3zQ1a9
could toss in the slightest contribution. A short but still awkward silence followed.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlui1FAG5u
The storm still has them, over this entire region those clouds, always ruthless, do not369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpiCp8rzS5
know the meaning of relent and ever do they allow anyone under their gaze to stay dry369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiNofCecsn
or warm, for even the slightest amount of time. Closer to the edge of what was once369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBiYhH1K9aY
a lively Brosse, now six instead of five, are experiencing the local weather, an ongoing369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPhzajwU04
storm that shows no signs of dispersion or the slightest weakness.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTn2KFbx0Yc
“You are not wearing your mask.” Deena pointed out.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kQdAy3b4O
“You don’t need that type of mask here Deena...” Red looked around once again as369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSYEDerkIr
if he was looking for something, and every time he did, one could tell he did not see369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Wa5hTMMt8
this place like any of the others “Besides I like to see the world as it really is, experience369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1ALAnTVGy
it as it really is...”369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPbKZKyNHE
“Boss,” says Harigar Rhim “we need to get moving.”369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2CVo5hApf
“Wait a moment” Red then widened his eyes “Where is Elistia?”369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIi6C06alO
“After you left, she was never the same again Red, she changed...” Dhanel Marce369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvkRVvuHUA
ignored Harigar Rhim and kept on talking, as if the sun was shining and his own voice369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGR9UgNeAKm
wasn’t being muffled by his mask or the heavy rain “...her focus and her strength were369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8giGIrs28C
no longer there as she started to often endanger the success of our missions and most369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNi6Ck3LU4T
importantly, her wellbeing. More than once either I or another, had to step in for her369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJT5ULxwT7K
sake; we suddenly began finding ourselves intervening often in inexplicably made dire369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGjQVcj9rD
situations, and whereas before she could have just handled them easily and gracefully369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YYhayswCD
all by herself, now, now if not for us, she would have surely lost it all. Everyone here,369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hmIQmk07t
except for Lorian who took her place, has saved her life more than once, and me more369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSkhVyvMwk
than I would like to count.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgL1XlJxONE
We slowly started noticing, all of us, that she had lost something shortly after your369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnaryNCnfE
departure; either her heart or her mind or maybe both. Something just wasn’t there369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYa3NV22et
anymore after you left which is, I think, understandable.
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