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Chapter Four446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI43qaT8Ww1
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrFNsDIxQY
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJPCq6gS4K
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYpi8rrE2i
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ83oO0rR3g
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLkYodKz1xx
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1O2F55rAXF
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvWdxqoMhc
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡep4aI5rdlV
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBOnrGsnlJ
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuWgaEdzQk
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNiXwmMdy1
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqMTu9B6F9
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBsW9JJYfX
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCLVDVUn3W
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHXxi68mjg
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrL1CML9B8
Not anymore.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqMc1QivG2
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxqsb7aAFv
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBuViqFZ3G
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKN3ULypjT
famous of them all.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQCkhknIvf
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfueV3XQ0C
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56VRRRyIRS
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEnXV2uPyJ
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovCj3P4YrG
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZgvYMxrHjO
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEVMoF9qsw
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡny5uCKjLlE
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlGBqowQcyN
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcVCZG0Fyl
unlike so many others.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡII08enSSTG
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaPq9ahrWT
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQo2y7Yvs7U
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9znWGpyid
person rather than from behind safer pages.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9Yxsf3gcX
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7ezVMBRoR
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkzzKttJwa
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXjHDosBmZ
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2BMgeLxhLm
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xUX2OE00t
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCP8YtLj7B
the jump.”446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcbsrXF0Ml
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSCgPbXFsh
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFMApyIKv7
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQsIglj1Xx
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhxb1037hO1
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwxJzUg1BBo
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce446Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZn3MveiKto
who was expecting what followed.
