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Chapter Four224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtm1JYXHeYh
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefpLWF5S0v
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS9bMSruQ6q
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWQtOrlAYj
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcovHiWzLi4
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXI0Ssx9QC
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUHTPvDpST
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVpdMXbFu7V
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHux0KuIq0
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCDBy8gMTh
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupBeJhs4uM
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4g5u4zOrZK
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0elsR66yqf
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡII7UiRuHZr
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOu9JFoZB6e
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmmDfQPZuZ
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANRsTFD5gS
Not anymore.224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJ8LMMW2Oa
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8MOo8gd2V
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI3OqnzQO0x
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMUVnYzsWD
famous of them all.224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoY4fKlMMqW
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhrfYRgpSWO
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpsUujXSTJ
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0g5JhjaHXd
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlAZByLRjIU
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGp0MLq61h
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uDgVt5DmC
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzqEJgGuhfv
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL2WzkJu1i7
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWBsvG43aD
unlike so many others.224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI6DO7T7Hz9
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQsIH9DQb7
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBQInu4iII
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTI3nb2VM6c
person rather than from behind safer pages.224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmYqwOqQAK
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyggg9fvq9Q
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOh0gUKLTcv
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZkmjVXMMEd
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMcyfawT7B
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOWxDVDXEF
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTi89mKsc7
the jump.”224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpcIOSqQGm
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhxj9X0roSu
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjChRT0bS4
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡayfdqFmPHQ
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkpDOTuQpW
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ271KYmvDAM
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce224Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95LWUvoxSk
who was expecting what followed.
