Chapter Four144Please respect copyright.PENANA2V26Rs0YFg
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their144Please respect copyright.PENANAqnbenxjHMj
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they144Please respect copyright.PENANAEfZJZzrY9x
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as144Please respect copyright.PENANAWQYgbGCL5H
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,144Please respect copyright.PENANA2zIHwiiecD
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.144Please respect copyright.PENANA5FHDW4SeXu
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared144Please respect copyright.PENANAjA2nIRPDC5
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst144Please respect copyright.PENANAMniwkRFied
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the144Please respect copyright.PENANAni2Hj1eelL
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply144Please respect copyright.PENANA11XVYtCPpq
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing144Please respect copyright.PENANAZBk6xw2C6I
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...144Please respect copyright.PENANAfTzJqx6gCG
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is144Please respect copyright.PENANAy7J3jbhJ4t
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”144Please respect copyright.PENANAL3QVHiV7qV
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and144Please respect copyright.PENANA6RaUQo9bHE
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts144Please respect copyright.PENANAPhZfqITEi9
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.144Please respect copyright.PENANASkqDgPbecr
Not anymore.144Please respect copyright.PENANAwbtsZa7mha
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty144Please respect copyright.PENANAdsUw0VvDoj
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing144Please respect copyright.PENANAdeHvrgk8OJ
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most144Please respect copyright.PENANA7kJaozpPkW
famous of them all.144Please respect copyright.PENANAE4pXXdMSys
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone144Please respect copyright.PENANAEYRCQL3Psg
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole144Please respect copyright.PENANA7X0noZycmD
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,144Please respect copyright.PENANAh7lByeD51r
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with144Please respect copyright.PENANAapfI3yXzQu
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy144Please respect copyright.PENANAgeBuPqQEmo
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.144Please respect copyright.PENANAb2cNVTxI5F
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place144Please respect copyright.PENANAnff9qZOijW
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.144Please respect copyright.PENANAOs0RsIjaQ2
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is144Please respect copyright.PENANAV5pykI6Tae
unlike so many others.144Please respect copyright.PENANAn3o7not9wX
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or144Please respect copyright.PENANASB6ZRFZsHY
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral144Please respect copyright.PENANAIobomuBD7b
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in144Please respect copyright.PENANAafSGwxO7CH
person rather than from behind safer pages.144Please respect copyright.PENANAkCI5JypHje
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and144Please respect copyright.PENANAOzut82oynQ
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that144Please respect copyright.PENANAt5VmUuoAkI
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.144Please respect copyright.PENANA8VVALBetSr
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already144Please respect copyright.PENANAKnRLQy83rj
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we144Please respect copyright.PENANAdhefeyIjjB
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made144Please respect copyright.PENANAGUxdIoe7se
the jump.”144Please respect copyright.PENANAWodD8SJ9yX
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards144Please respect copyright.PENANA5KX8nXv0K2
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”144Please respect copyright.PENANAAnpwJ8YyaC
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then144Please respect copyright.PENANAwSsMyhHkMO
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...144Please respect copyright.PENANAQO9Vz7ljD1
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”144Please respect copyright.PENANAs6qvcIkXzM
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce144Please respect copyright.PENANALSXOV2MXD5
who was expecting what followed.