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“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoQqO1KaWo
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtG7X3FrpdW
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXuYG0uxfZc
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTlqtNe5mf
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLBdyogtPi
chance regardless, if so willing...229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fYgmE8Wdg
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GP7sW4r7e
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK15Hc6Ds2f
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV2zRrv8P40
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsiHYXgTMe
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQxxO8VaU3
will easily use them up.”229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg53TwDSjUD
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rI5lgbAC4
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9zQt7Oxtso
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtB0d2iN3Vo
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqA4F9Wjnvs
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDqehlRL4Q
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhwNbsVRGlG
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAaLaDE5qk
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WTZICxt72
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJAplobu7O
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89IGEimuvN
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokXY18eeS2
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR628q4egO9
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CmsMfUbuf
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldBWYSpWLo
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9nYHSPBZS
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAa41qQMoP
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbwQN3j0IWy
metal wheels alone.”229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbTmC86Bno
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLceHLVb5V
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPMFZHwwA6
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpkwvALQBZ
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEr9PiST88
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTDZT0p2im
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwXYam8Klz
than twenty minutes at best.”229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDul3aVaFCk
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuPd99SxqDF
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1M10DhAJ4h
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFtoRvie4D
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJpJ33anR24
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoj0TrqhUSe
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmymrkFcwS
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCb61umtQg
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCPfPyUTn3
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1B5nLamA1
be placed in a better perspective.”229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHO15goj1kQ
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”229Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGtA0I6OhB
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”
