
Chapter Six262Please respect copyright.PENANARaAjJIQOtE
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,262Please respect copyright.PENANAfqabiyXgGE
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each262Please respect copyright.PENANAOzQTCim8xF
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among262Please respect copyright.PENANAOcWvt2XDZJ
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took262Please respect copyright.PENANAyvBl2bChQv
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their262Please respect copyright.PENANAetBUxK2YjG
chance regardless, if so willing...262Please respect copyright.PENANAb2bLuy0k0Q
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks262Please respect copyright.PENANAdCXvvcrCzA
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems262Please respect copyright.PENANAJ9sRxKp3eF
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we262Please respect copyright.PENANAIxMz2rUxZ9
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,262Please respect copyright.PENANAnsmygiwvNq
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top262Please respect copyright.PENANA2EGGIbJoKQ
will easily use them up.”262Please respect copyright.PENANAI78AySKi6x
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time262Please respect copyright.PENANA4BPzdm8lSh
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”262Please respect copyright.PENANAiwB292VjX9
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up262Please respect copyright.PENANAFLS0ZC3v5C
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take262Please respect copyright.PENANAMOTGVuZnCa
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train262Please respect copyright.PENANAbrUVUIQb7M
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,262Please respect copyright.PENANA5MLWeqVmKK
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”262Please respect copyright.PENANA8RqpxvcxQj
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream262Please respect copyright.PENANA2QcWIIvHO3
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so262Please respect copyright.PENANA1EbnLbcU1N
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old262Please respect copyright.PENANAm2SLDCh2HI
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics262Please respect copyright.PENANAsIdp6H23Jd
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but262Please respect copyright.PENANARJoMob1qPM
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good262Please respect copyright.PENANA6af8YZSI4D
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”262Please respect copyright.PENANAognO9vpwDY
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any262Please respect copyright.PENANA7z9aSjpt8e
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its262Please respect copyright.PENANAB0dg0dLLqh
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on262Please respect copyright.PENANAHpF91vBB3b
metal wheels alone.”262Please respect copyright.PENANAyzytt659P9
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,262Please respect copyright.PENANAKTMtlaAPJJ
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with262Please respect copyright.PENANAhkHdQKwK44
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.262Please respect copyright.PENANASVf685auZO
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but262Please respect copyright.PENANAHF3rFE5Xf9
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast262Please respect copyright.PENANA5EDssKV5eJ
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more262Please respect copyright.PENANAEForDspnqs
than twenty minutes at best.”262Please respect copyright.PENANAGve7o5wUa2
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”262Please respect copyright.PENANAhp5Pi95PuH
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her262Please respect copyright.PENANAnAOMKPhQLY
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse262Please respect copyright.PENANAj7Jc2KMS7N
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop262Please respect copyright.PENANAZl1jEjg12D
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored262Please respect copyright.PENANA3RjIk40l3v
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will262Please respect copyright.PENANAokc415qbkb
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;262Please respect copyright.PENANAxEBc0uqffx
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of262Please respect copyright.PENANA6L96j48nMU
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely262Please respect copyright.PENANAn1IInm2ReF
be placed in a better perspective.”262Please respect copyright.PENANAu727ogzzSJ
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”262Please respect copyright.PENANAmbFlKDzV1F
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”