
Chapter Six398Please respect copyright.PENANAYNJoi2HKnn
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,398Please respect copyright.PENANA4nCWCTY0XM
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each398Please respect copyright.PENANAholNhy59Ka
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among398Please respect copyright.PENANAkqndEjWhMh
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took398Please respect copyright.PENANAzDngTYKcfK
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their398Please respect copyright.PENANAc3ceufv4Z8
chance regardless, if so willing...398Please respect copyright.PENANAroCIp1ZzX9
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks398Please respect copyright.PENANAGp2yoSrEd8
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems398Please respect copyright.PENANAagzi9mYc6B
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we398Please respect copyright.PENANAIZmT0JpOdQ
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,398Please respect copyright.PENANANHs7y6ICho
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top398Please respect copyright.PENANAx2PHtSLzkS
will easily use them up.”398Please respect copyright.PENANARrJan7K6vs
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time398Please respect copyright.PENANARJu3s9R4dP
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”398Please respect copyright.PENANAgn3SS69Net
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up398Please respect copyright.PENANArqvXecjfLG
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take398Please respect copyright.PENANAOzyQktyusr
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train398Please respect copyright.PENANA7YtGWfwVXb
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,398Please respect copyright.PENANAwwc0kRQIbv
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”398Please respect copyright.PENANAA6pGo82C1m
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream398Please respect copyright.PENANAEj4WMgeVDy
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so398Please respect copyright.PENANAxxX5N9vmCP
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old398Please respect copyright.PENANAynR5GUeHJL
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics398Please respect copyright.PENANAwHA9pehNQM
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but398Please respect copyright.PENANAQEe8rvNI5M
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good398Please respect copyright.PENANAcggCFEz9fQ
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”398Please respect copyright.PENANAb6EpYrATR8
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any398Please respect copyright.PENANAblMe9KmfD1
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its398Please respect copyright.PENANAf1t93aB0P4
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on398Please respect copyright.PENANAVVXTR1N4X5
metal wheels alone.”398Please respect copyright.PENANA6preodrGN3
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,398Please respect copyright.PENANA3TeFQIAemO
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with398Please respect copyright.PENANAsEEwl4ddiS
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.398Please respect copyright.PENANA4s5NlIrBgf
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but398Please respect copyright.PENANAPIQZDzOMNW
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast398Please respect copyright.PENANA8TYCdqbjeM
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more398Please respect copyright.PENANAqBazbDz0am
than twenty minutes at best.”398Please respect copyright.PENANADgLSnD3cxs
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”398Please respect copyright.PENANAyb4QyVjAMB
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her398Please respect copyright.PENANAMWJX2HTh6L
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse398Please respect copyright.PENANA3Ew0ERvTCs
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop398Please respect copyright.PENANA6RQjt1UHU7
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored398Please respect copyright.PENANAJLnd3hryc9
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will398Please respect copyright.PENANABvEEwDz7Wp
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;398Please respect copyright.PENANA4KnX5b1j8s
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of398Please respect copyright.PENANAGT6Aultwi3
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely398Please respect copyright.PENANAjY9Cjd3byp
be placed in a better perspective.”398Please respect copyright.PENANAtTDgQx13w2
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”398Please respect copyright.PENANA1u7M9c54sv
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”