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Chapter Four225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMR5iiH23a
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8tW0tgtUu5
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi50wAhiNGe
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTmUqP4cjg
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcemunqiaS
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEYLapBkYn
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH60Iyksdxd
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0jibog1k2I
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPx31zJYYH
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGPch5xOnh
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNALvoQnR1a
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFV9OfbDMtu
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxXyRepd4W
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4OwMfgJrq
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0n4bywAO4X
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvWZedQfHw
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxcyqKN9q5
Not anymore.225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAl46cEDKOE
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSCmdza9Pg
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YVIBIH9Zu
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMvOTFoGp6
famous of them all.225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtsLzf6Hud
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkPHcCzVs1
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuiPtmTsIHt
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOieAOfbien
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlASDUFxok
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJvZ6dZPsw
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIzRwsa7Gu
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwze7ZHJDxD
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDHx3dZHsi
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwW0CrMrXs
unlike so many others.225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93f6H1rXXp
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmScRjeaZO5
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt26WvBPFbS
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4TQBnInzXj
person rather than from behind safer pages.225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKYiXsn41v
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23pqoZKiTn
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsZFj39Wmh
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wTo7u3t1L
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC8XNzZlU4x
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWgjwoMe3W
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKh86ZzUsz1
the jump.”225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAYUTO8FE0
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ToPgC7sZ6
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcsiqos0DxS
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSKv9XgUiD
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLyo2mbAg1
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVCnHEqoE8
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce225Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfACbxwyvKD
who was expecting what followed.
