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Chapter Four204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2HYOWhRdq
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsybZwdoJY
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfPeiKcWMb
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMq3w8ryyFI
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jspBynvdz
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSu7lIzs8KR
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbI4zWvB8c7
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xhNq93sdX
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0pHotjr3Ko
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0l1d2NucLG
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8WBnS90KVx
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6cr7WC8Hl
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXM0vpxqf8
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUkvcN1Qk8
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0HSQdbOAR
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjnEcXroNM
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3My6Za3nv
Not anymore.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOuawXyRUOL
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZJtRMJckU
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovpWbxErTx
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJYMV8Uw18
famous of them all.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2IvH7SAzI
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGdIb5DZtE
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyNdSBz5Xk
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhLS3BbYHb
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH587D0hrXi
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVrc7Jh7mi
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcURyWk2YGe
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxoQXKISAhr
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhxCD3DCmn
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtiS5jftcU
unlike so many others.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQG2AhqPKX
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYtpCaA85g
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdJJdJPPaD
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZjhLcHys7
person rather than from behind safer pages.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyctFzBXP0z
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtOOY2V4Tum
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKob4IWriOu
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLToitGZZW7
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7AgfG0CSo
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFszkmFvvT1
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcO5SHnQxcO
the jump.”204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0OJhypBMU
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLya0yQgcw
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3dqLJZPFK
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4s5E9uCZzX
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eUSuvBUz2
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TU2Wnng2b
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLDB4wKBHah
who was expecting what followed.
