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Chapter Four390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyX9U23Bhkd
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWjHy7N8Bg
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzsQfAy2ooF
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwAXqfQOrD
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWtUXgZo12
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGFjPdUYvt
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovLMuScP7k
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx84opCoiFh
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyjuECTxtz
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmLovJ23JW
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO50oxc4yrY
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFZF2fbeqUj
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQtpL934SDA
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡres5FW4xg7
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrxkRQQ20v
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE2OhgixzJ9
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HTWSNR4wM
Not anymore.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqt25UqPkQ4
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIfDRgcuz3
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqU98iwYqXi
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhRQhKe92O
famous of them all.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtfRKCiT5g
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQmtAYJU3S
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4f6Nxo6sHH
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5EHmLAvvW
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKB4l59bsKi
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡArUlFU2Pbb
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4gwvkc7lc
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZ7rNYcom2
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAzZzbv4uC
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtV1IqgwkXK
unlike so many others.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXwTpFVXdB
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ctuOlI44l
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy39cebIZCs
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Ano9LkY1I
person rather than from behind safer pages.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTQTFl0Pme
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7QcbosonH
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJrnAN3IlI
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu6Oz7mfxRH
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvywC0ZnLI2
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Z4YdenNIo
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDZ89NoFIG
the jump.”390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbu2UFvGkwr
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqMDEtaVvr
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuztOFiUOaH
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZmItrI1mC
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLA5ltOxTj6
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9lFlSD4IIl
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfMkCHd8o5
who was expecting what followed.
