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Chapter Four331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHnx2PBjija
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRi1h65kBw
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRFXDe2N9xk
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwnwoJRl99
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Ru3dkVtsz
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUKLOg5p8A
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUk5Yovcad
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrDjAbUPKj
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYx2qTF2Jau
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlAUodIHo0
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKt7VSW46Q
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG426AFfpxu
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJk3jS5lBv
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ98VTCE09h7
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP7meGufRLF
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6opT7bwDrj
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejwIYfJLU7
Not anymore.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe29WiK58N0
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVCKEmGZu4
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmR81pCtUnj
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6hYP1g6Nl
famous of them all.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepj0kqRrvt
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCzzJwBZ91
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHta8i5dOD
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTblfmFE4E
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtYXiYEadr
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FhBSuJ1GZ
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38cIvbx6WL
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59EFvDR8Aw
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr87YgOtcrb
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoN9Gk1JaeH
unlike so many others.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPWCPd9ItI
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4sqRUfPZH
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKcUIfQ7P0R
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD664L9ZcPJ
person rather than from behind safer pages.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1GaHybx8i
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbK83HCoNEt
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1l6zxewJTQ
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7KQdxGyUo
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18oCadL4l4
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGB73l6cmG4
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1U4fYGZGeB
the jump.”331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9ym5BT3xb
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4GuP10jai
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gEZDtd95s
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡePaILi8e6F
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkjNgIly0K
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO95wuw284O
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp8YUyaUv2l
who was expecting what followed.
