A break with destiny
Chapter 2
The Disappearance
Renn doubled back toward Fin-kedinn's little shelter, at a full on run. The only thing running in her mind though was, "where is Torak?" She bursted into Fin-kedinn's small wooden shelter. Then she grudgedly spoke, "Torak is missing!" Fin-kedinn's face was as unreadable as ever. Saeunn, the Ravens mage sat beside him her face, pail like white tree bark.
"What?!" Saeunn cried out so loud she startled the cawing ravens outside into flight. "Someone must go find him!" Saeunn half screamed half grunted. Renn snapped to attention. "I will go. I m-mean me and Wolf will go." Fin-kedinn sat looking at her, a leak of approval showing on his features. "But you can't go, we must send someone who is big and strong!" Saeunn said, still screaming.
"Then send me with someone that is big and strong, like Versile, or something. I don't care who you send me with, but I will go to find Torak. What if the Soul Eaters got him hu?" Renn said calmly as she could manage. By now Wolf was standing encouragingly beside her. "Very well. Eslan!" Fin-kedinn finished with a shout. And a young boy of roughly ten summers came popping into the shelter. "Yes, Fin-kedinn?" The boy whose name apparently was Eslan, asked. "Fetch Versile." Fin-kedinn ordered. The boy ran off.
Renn then sat down next to Wolf, and across from a stern looking Fin-kedinn, and a steaming Saeunn. Saeunn did seem to be rather cross at the moment. That much she could tell. Versile arrived only seconds after Renn had sat down. Fin-kedinn motioned with his hand for him to sit beside Renn.
"We have a very urgent matter at hand, Versile. And we would much appreciate it if you would help us. We believe Torak has been taken by the Soul Eaters." Versile's face went so pail his clan tattoo stood out like a white dove sitting in a Blackwood tree. Fin-kedinn continued "We must retrieve him. Or Torak may most certainly be facing death." "I-I will help, I-in anyway I-I can, Fin-kedinn." Stammered Versile, the poor man was shaking so bad he was practically convulsing.
"Get a hold of your self, man." Renn said encouragingly as she slapped him playfully on his back. "We will be needing you and Renn –Ahem-… And Wolf to be ready to set out by dawn tomorrow, so that you may search for Torak." Said Fin-kedinn his features unreadable, but Saeunn still looked incredibly creased by this whole situation. She got up and stalked out, again upsetting ravens around near the shelter. Wolf left after her probably to go walking around aimlessly till it was time to go. Fin-kedinn sat looking at us, probably a little irritated because he had missed nightmeal.
Versile rose to his feet and excused himself so that he may get ready for their journey and go to get himself some nightmeal. But didn't dare say he was going to find food, because Fin-kedinn was actually beginning to look rather cross. Then Renn got to her feet. "I should go prepare myself and my things, would you like me to fetch you nightmeal?" "No, no I will get it myself." He said, wile getting to his feet.
Renn turned and left the shelter, heading for her own temporary stick home. She saw Versile talking to Vennin outside there shelter, but she couldn't make out what they were saying. So she headed back off toward her home.
Wolf was sniffing around the North end of the camp. She saw him just before she entered the makeshift, almost hut looking structure. She let the long flap of elk skin that acted as her door fall behind her as she stepped into the barely lit room.
She took her food and medicine pouches in her hands, then went to the fire at the center of the encampment. The fire was still awake and burning rather brightly, because the sky had not even begun to get black, which would indicate that it was middle night. The sky was still the deep watery looking blue of late evening. She spied some spare slivers of dried elk and rabbit meat. She took enough to fill her food pouch, then closed it and hooked it to her belt. Then she headed over to the herb garden, that she and Saeunn tended, just behind Saeunn shelter. She took a little bit of everything, because she didn't know what they would encounter wile looking for Torak.
She hooked the medicine pouch onto her belt alongside the food pouch. Then she headed back to her shelter, and on the way stopped by the stream to fill up her water skin, which had already been hooked to her belt. And with that done, she trudged off. Once inside she took off her belt with all three things still attached and set them beside her hunting pack. Which was rather large and she wore it with the strap slung over her left shoulder and the pack part hung just behind her right hip.
She got her quiver, which was already filled with about as many arrows it could hold. She sat that by her pack, and put her beloved bow next to it. Then she made sher her black slate knife, and curved stone axe were hooked onto her belt which at the moment lay beside her pack. After all her preparations were done, she crawled into her sleeping sack and fell into a dreamless sleep.
