
Chapter Six267Please respect copyright.PENANAODZMLpAqqr
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,267Please respect copyright.PENANARsZEfnHuhZ
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each267Please respect copyright.PENANAXcTIaIM3ky
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among267Please respect copyright.PENANAv72tp4EPSB
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took267Please respect copyright.PENANAbUmJtbocgE
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their267Please respect copyright.PENANAaykMIWh8i2
chance regardless, if so willing...267Please respect copyright.PENANAOyJRzMpjr1
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks267Please respect copyright.PENANAUiqfGSfZug
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems267Please respect copyright.PENANA5uCXxcRU9z
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we267Please respect copyright.PENANAdNv25LwEsf
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,267Please respect copyright.PENANANmBXYqzOjI
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top267Please respect copyright.PENANAP1GkJye6eB
will easily use them up.”267Please respect copyright.PENANAjuJzxqI9PL
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time267Please respect copyright.PENANAJFkPmSOPTO
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”267Please respect copyright.PENANAedoNXYgGdB
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up267Please respect copyright.PENANAvgtCyIAldb
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take267Please respect copyright.PENANAC05mXNcw2b
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train267Please respect copyright.PENANA4xFwK1948c
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,267Please respect copyright.PENANATrI5rBlDYR
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”267Please respect copyright.PENANA8I3849VmR2
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream267Please respect copyright.PENANAoAEeNS7mtx
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so267Please respect copyright.PENANASfFipGeYbS
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old267Please respect copyright.PENANAVy0AUw7CWM
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics267Please respect copyright.PENANAHFTersXoTY
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but267Please respect copyright.PENANADucwmWuW0p
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good267Please respect copyright.PENANA6m11agJomd
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”267Please respect copyright.PENANAkDtD1LerRb
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any267Please respect copyright.PENANAFIPqZB1yza
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its267Please respect copyright.PENANAyJHBdYbm0A
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on267Please respect copyright.PENANAiAUpxlVCrE
metal wheels alone.”267Please respect copyright.PENANAeXhTqLEJqb
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,267Please respect copyright.PENANAZZxvuOkckp
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with267Please respect copyright.PENANAm1zx28sQ3q
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.267Please respect copyright.PENANA68aGOQiZEQ
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but267Please respect copyright.PENANArYqnf5YMku
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast267Please respect copyright.PENANAMeVmRcVoCx
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more267Please respect copyright.PENANAAGPYtvXgjL
than twenty minutes at best.”267Please respect copyright.PENANAqKEOcxQPvm
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”267Please respect copyright.PENANAPExyYtlINs
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her267Please respect copyright.PENANAhJRD5QP7NN
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse267Please respect copyright.PENANAaQnUTNTF9V
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop267Please respect copyright.PENANAYcWwU3FBxj
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored267Please respect copyright.PENANAkCnVIN0UFh
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will267Please respect copyright.PENANAQug4KKWz9g
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;267Please respect copyright.PENANABixuVcH08w
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of267Please respect copyright.PENANAqW5Ck2rnjx
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely267Please respect copyright.PENANAuPg9R9REyP
be placed in a better perspective.”267Please respect copyright.PENANAdrc0hA8nXj
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”267Please respect copyright.PENANAdjl2yKgg3c
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”