
Chapter Six266Please respect copyright.PENANAUH42hxh7a3
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,266Please respect copyright.PENANAURrQJgx0eC
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each266Please respect copyright.PENANAgQ0oQE0jmw
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among266Please respect copyright.PENANA9CCtT2BRWD
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took266Please respect copyright.PENANAedKEwKBm0T
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their266Please respect copyright.PENANAdONBuzrkSL
chance regardless, if so willing...266Please respect copyright.PENANA2EtTomDmWY
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks266Please respect copyright.PENANAfY1NvnlzYL
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems266Please respect copyright.PENANAd140qq1OUo
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we266Please respect copyright.PENANA1bNVqd2Fc9
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,266Please respect copyright.PENANA5mVOHB48bd
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top266Please respect copyright.PENANAKyi5ehvmlM
will easily use them up.”266Please respect copyright.PENANAMwSV86uElP
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time266Please respect copyright.PENANAwCA4oCtxmk
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”266Please respect copyright.PENANAxK4JDHjzkF
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up266Please respect copyright.PENANABNSOSNiai0
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take266Please respect copyright.PENANAD64H3Z1axC
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train266Please respect copyright.PENANAa9gywwA8WR
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,266Please respect copyright.PENANA2GtkriC6Nv
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”266Please respect copyright.PENANA5l7Zs8AuMk
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream266Please respect copyright.PENANA72NRtVcE2T
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so266Please respect copyright.PENANAs3hOMoGZcW
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old266Please respect copyright.PENANApOhnNKD0Vw
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics266Please respect copyright.PENANAIrdnnDSF7e
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but266Please respect copyright.PENANA4CCFj6u7mq
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good266Please respect copyright.PENANAXU1HuEmoRH
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”266Please respect copyright.PENANACPVBsZC0aP
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any266Please respect copyright.PENANAjs3jJUTPNr
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its266Please respect copyright.PENANAE8qjPDqgik
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on266Please respect copyright.PENANAKux92UBxxI
metal wheels alone.”266Please respect copyright.PENANAJslwvsib9q
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,266Please respect copyright.PENANAX2Q30vGBDz
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with266Please respect copyright.PENANA4A1YpAgUHx
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.266Please respect copyright.PENANAOdG8Z6a8rp
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but266Please respect copyright.PENANA10cXUEErJI
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast266Please respect copyright.PENANAcEhVVM5QN0
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more266Please respect copyright.PENANAdXomDVpCLp
than twenty minutes at best.”266Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1pg1Hs9l5
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”266Please respect copyright.PENANA3Bunfbl0iI
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her266Please respect copyright.PENANAgcLT8k3hlL
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse266Please respect copyright.PENANA7wm46W2Ohh
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop266Please respect copyright.PENANAn2r239mTTi
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored266Please respect copyright.PENANAzTOsVu7ywp
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will266Please respect copyright.PENANAgipAXx6ulC
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;266Please respect copyright.PENANAvNOVU8Zemy
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of266Please respect copyright.PENANA4L3ax5ypIq
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely266Please respect copyright.PENANAxlwwiGCkhk
be placed in a better perspective.”266Please respect copyright.PENANARodyjyM1YE
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”266Please respect copyright.PENANA29umI2CmRT
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”