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Chapter Four316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWT2kMotchO
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmxii332Hh
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgRUhM7YxX
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKrkgHSfsVZ
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbra5rjNJq1
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuzSKXm1Sm
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmE5FZLSSpY
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpVLBM6ncj
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BkSbuDDMT
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP88A70G8v8
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSljTZCnXU
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaYiddzBxY4
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbjWn02OGE
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMq5SJaeESw
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD7bAkGH4uf
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdit8REfcI
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcekwpg3MWS
Not anymore.316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf2hDY80PRU
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqWTmO8pI6
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5Hq4eA9ZJ
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2yJ9qcl3Z
famous of them all.316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsP9DO5uJ8W
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXq8FRqdU5
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNruC1OR1r4
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxnUeOED0fm
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIcQtetIE9
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvAFpHS0RM
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeketIcrfS1
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8DEqblYMR
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9fNAhrDaq
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmqV1KWrzMq
unlike so many others.316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnklQvSo8XI
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡts2Sjn9ReW
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGdxMRXYuOF
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdMvfjneOcM
person rather than from behind safer pages.316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4PEtKC6Z0
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbuBHkvOiq
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRiFKLcZhol
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfiUhF62n0P
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcjWBWVX4u
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk93Iw3mMzm
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKyqKGyEUh
the jump.”316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDu53iRMzb
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQqaQq2tTZZ
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvWxWUKTO5
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvFLFoXSJ2
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87GY4KuxY9
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4L7iifn21g
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce316Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWb9F4OQT5J
who was expecting what followed.
