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“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPUqUedRlS
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1oiZIoHcYO
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jfac02EtY
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtlDjd5Byk
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2THbDNh85
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSymZH4a6sC
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2wBPWc5M9
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ675WS8nhrU
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8cw9f6HU5
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWloo6jayJj
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtXP87azqj
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTR48ssx29u
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUgYXk7AzS
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmH62zlgu8Z
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjoz3CI6Ik
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQbpWPzQp7
Not anymore.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASSLBr4KzM
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRn1M4Zbmog
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHoTiJ3CzQf
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0179PcACdk
famous of them all.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmR9tpZTs0
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VAqFdrnvj
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbomImWmubX
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDaXybsGFO
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45zWmvYvaG
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1asZa8taF
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Pc0Zjshs3
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHgzED3U5T
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6IXaMxuvSa
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkCKx2YDHy
unlike so many others.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVbpmm8wGT
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1D7IrU482g
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFeBRPPj5S
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYWzvf21RQ
person rather than from behind safer pages.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xlior2Ybk
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwsUd2ioSO
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhg6jGy5lE
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNZaaz6IZ0
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEIW3gf3q1
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PfOM1czBe
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjld7GSDObm
the jump.”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLWdHqaIOf
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmym5h01BOc
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDb4iVo0J3
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmANVaHDiEA
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1VZV8Yc3s
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQUWWg8uxYt
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce265Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxLPj1B30Lh
who was expecting what followed.
