He sits there in the back of the room. His hood over his face, his head bowed down reading some sort of book. He sits at a table that is surrounded by deep shadows. He wears black robes. A gauntlet of red wine sits in front of him. The door opens, a cold gust of winter air blows into the Inn and the Black Robe shivers a bit. He looks up toward the door and he sees a young girl, maybe of the age 17 or 18. Her eyes roam the inn and she heads to the bar.

She sits on as stole closest the door, maybe for easy except if she needs to. Or maybe there is something else. Whatever it is, the Black Robe can not put his finger on in. In the back of his mind a relentless nagging persistently tells this Black Robe he knows this women, but can not remember why. He sits there, wondering if he should get up or not and he decides he will. He gets up from the table, but bumps into it. He knocks over the wine. The young women look back at him and gives a faint smile. He leaves the table and the spilt wine and walks over to her sits at the stole next to her and turns to face her.

"You new here" He asks in his usual dark voice.

She jumps a bit and turns to him; her face shows little emotion. But he can see she is scared.

"Ummm?" She clears he throat, her voice shakes a bit. "Yeah..I.I..gue..ss?I am.." She says nervously, trying to avoid eye contact with him.

He nods, like he understands. "Names Eric Hellgard?" He turns to the bar and tells nud to bring him another wine. He turns back to the young women."Might I ask you your name"

She just looks at him, not moving, her eyes. He eyes shows that she is not only surprised but also scared of the name.

"Did I stutter or something? Or just can't you talk?" She shakes her head and tries to speak but is lost for words. Finally she manages to speak.

"You..are..are.a..Hellgard" You can tell in her voice there is some excitement, but not a lot. It seems she has been drained of all her emotions.

He nods and blinks at her. "You look familiar to me. Have I seen you before? And do you have a name"He asks again.

She just looks at him. And finally says. "Yes..yes..you know me.. I am Leeanna."

He quickly gets up and backs away from her. His face twisted with emotions. He says in a less deeper voice and more in a shocked voice.

"Leeanna was my sister.. She died..She was.." He does not finish and can not he keep backing up. Everyone in the bar is looking at him like he is crazy and lost his mind. The start to mermer between them self. He does not hear them. He just backs up into the wall and just looks at her like he has seen a ghost.

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