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Chapter Four354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hQcS6bUpA
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5Rgft35zb
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRuXNqItef
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFu3HfDgrN3
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxn8QIjnqL
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAzMZnIsFVg
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZ7xPBtO0a
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYh25PdfCve
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8thZ665M6
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE2dsbvI7Fy
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuf6otsdhwn
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxEyMLy9Aw
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCIpy4usXP
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8JhWs8org
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu3ZQbAZR49
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbMNRpYuwy
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMYyDXn8F2
Not anymore.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5alzM2zkn
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxoLABmqvSq
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wjyTsCRGr
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQaGtJ0VugO
famous of them all.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbqUox4tUJ
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWQOWSYAwT
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl6ayZrV5AY
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYza5ab1ewp
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOThvD7enj
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJV4nQrfeVs
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7ZvGsuEXo
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8Ms1jUQyu
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklpZYSNPpG
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4zRe1kSmL
unlike so many others.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuR95mnlnKb
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYX5sLOuBFt
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBAYiVTY4ja
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZG5jjvlJr
person rather than from behind safer pages.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBhyF4MMft
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsn3zojW0n
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4b9mcKaWv
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVisolfhY0
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIxskKWS7Ie
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqV17X6RYA3
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKL0FrP47b
the jump.”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpUj98ncgYU
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRovwMFb5U
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3acIpUx1q
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunemx1bJRo
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8dfJ6bmGP
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxahgRaszDg
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce354Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwLYBRtD5M
who was expecting what followed.
