
Chapter Six263Please respect copyright.PENANAdD1BT1lpuE
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,263Please respect copyright.PENANATUfpZJ7EcS
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each263Please respect copyright.PENANA344ePYFMgA
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among263Please respect copyright.PENANAQcfaHlxJhy
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took263Please respect copyright.PENANAcQ8oiiOz0b
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their263Please respect copyright.PENANAcH8NQ6zMen
chance regardless, if so willing...263Please respect copyright.PENANAnes8ueuvQ4
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks263Please respect copyright.PENANAfnhuFZLCVM
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems263Please respect copyright.PENANApqyaVFtpjJ
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we263Please respect copyright.PENANAy60VYYp8Jz
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,263Please respect copyright.PENANAlyu2IgRztI
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top263Please respect copyright.PENANAmBRhGRO8cG
will easily use them up.”263Please respect copyright.PENANAmGKLkumXdD
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time263Please respect copyright.PENANA4Qi7hW4DAB
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”263Please respect copyright.PENANAw3pvH0jfuK
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up263Please respect copyright.PENANAzWJjeKmrQe
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take263Please respect copyright.PENANAQ6Fd5TnfQR
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train263Please respect copyright.PENANA2zjhXQmUy8
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,263Please respect copyright.PENANApfrovVqbbZ
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”263Please respect copyright.PENANAPWOhQGuxvH
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream263Please respect copyright.PENANAdnMzXmektf
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so263Please respect copyright.PENANAizUYtcyIE0
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old263Please respect copyright.PENANAA3HSdFU2Bo
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics263Please respect copyright.PENANAhSkCixJbej
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but263Please respect copyright.PENANAvqjz8vShrK
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good263Please respect copyright.PENANANHjWfnUXe5
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”263Please respect copyright.PENANAYqp6zImxIw
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any263Please respect copyright.PENANACDjuqG64Fk
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its263Please respect copyright.PENANAURoKZ64rmT
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on263Please respect copyright.PENANAQj8k8Crjgi
metal wheels alone.”263Please respect copyright.PENANAV81gCJIITs
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,263Please respect copyright.PENANAhky9I4w9H8
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with263Please respect copyright.PENANAhKA23m9KJV
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.263Please respect copyright.PENANAfMdBxr49yC
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but263Please respect copyright.PENANASRdAmhstRa
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast263Please respect copyright.PENANAKJ2btEGhgu
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more263Please respect copyright.PENANANSsfK2NvPO
than twenty minutes at best.”263Please respect copyright.PENANAQt6ZnGpksJ
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”263Please respect copyright.PENANA4y92Q1dyEt
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her263Please respect copyright.PENANAGPUJEh3OdP
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse263Please respect copyright.PENANAqAMzRHVivF
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop263Please respect copyright.PENANAAjRW2acG4j
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored263Please respect copyright.PENANAwTGI7gIH4D
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will263Please respect copyright.PENANAYfnlY8GoDp
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;263Please respect copyright.PENANAtC6fbQn0mF
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of263Please respect copyright.PENANAfuiUSjhIRb
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely263Please respect copyright.PENANAUSADqNuybm
be placed in a better perspective.”263Please respect copyright.PENANA4cdgRtaIe7
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”263Please respect copyright.PENANALy7BVboiEB
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”