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Chapter Four206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1IcWOgJbEN
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZqtbsypZ5d
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLic1q2DsD
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2NE2iug44
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKhqkAHcK0
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1R6USbwxEn
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88MRnmnvEy
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCsFiuA4OP
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfSjqcQEss
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrupjJCUCPK
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTHjEz6ZNV
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlaDyKfOFP8
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YtKDIgNh7
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJ3FoJZq5p
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzBXUsFhMiL
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4nmjo5rZl4
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxCI0TdA9B
Not anymore.206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ohExrJ9hi
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQnZmObDsu
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGKr6ORpNG
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlDVC7POIp
famous of them all.206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHPK2HjAii
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgradwMeRp
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKkH8NrTFdn
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3PX5KYusf
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fAFNOsX7J
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbxdEyWgb8
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsZ7Q9zcA2
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6l64TpHaI
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtNjxNjEp5
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSoOu08sZw
unlike so many others.206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLQgGNefio
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4uOg78k3L
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtb6Uhhtrdu
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pOzxcrqgl
person rather than from behind safer pages.206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8DXV1KgHO3
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoaq0yfP13u
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YPi04hKnn
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwkwQpy5fu
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4zEQbspmr
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFoQ5dFAS5b
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvEsWiQQBN
the jump.”206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVUKoj1DiO
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPTCNm3DDIN
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4U8frpgQp
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVt64ozh5v
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VORrc4qG0
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdbAHK1sUh
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce206Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81VOBEEAv3
who was expecting what followed.
