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Chapter Four203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoH3LjkjPp
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhk5gWEmjo
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv26AvwcNm4
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWtMA0FP5z
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTqrubT5AE
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zC6GiNYvc
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cUFxaOMuH
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbjQcSHZsTU
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxLQjtapnT
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjrBtMj0y09
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXDUi33K3k
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwhKHqvFgEl
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUXpO4vVM2
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWCeXU29Jm
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1sdUjnxr7
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8V2b3l1dVe
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgyjanIJwa
Not anymore.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6sMgLC1mVY
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSiKn0jWcE
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6eQOVbVrua
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOICfY93pD
famous of them all.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzdGQadUFO
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEc1sJMVixk
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjU7NfaUdO0
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnyqtuqByw
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2guq8LIDl
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbv3MSjfDd
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgHLZfhB21
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8CUH5DIKx
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡront728Zap
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZtdUl8hAb
unlike so many others.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEfih9zlO1
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQJhYs76DDg
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbsJE2cdAhc
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCE13taWXc6
person rather than from behind safer pages.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdz3EKAqA86
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexhldaodWw
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdpHeIGirBH
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNHuDIl3u5
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡez1U21tCIm
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGMC5KuUTH
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdQozaG9FX
the jump.”203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGorTO7cpH
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQrtDM99WHl
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6F69ITv0Se
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImwBclfHen
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jag01fMiy
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWDBg66DY2
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce203Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMAC1zyWeCz
who was expecting what followed.
