
Chapter Six359Please respect copyright.PENANA3f4lHvYqoG
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,359Please respect copyright.PENANA6gGXLvoovE
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each359Please respect copyright.PENANAGRo15xsiuL
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among359Please respect copyright.PENANApnSwSQgBNH
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took359Please respect copyright.PENANAAFxDQrjgsi
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their359Please respect copyright.PENANAED7bvQg98I
chance regardless, if so willing...359Please respect copyright.PENANAypEJ0cwzBH
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks359Please respect copyright.PENANA1OoHYg2TpZ
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems359Please respect copyright.PENANAgPkMV3KJ3M
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we359Please respect copyright.PENANAaYrF73ij3N
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,359Please respect copyright.PENANAfMLmLnzTF7
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top359Please respect copyright.PENANAg4biGmsaeS
will easily use them up.”359Please respect copyright.PENANAnkNT833Bnq
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time359Please respect copyright.PENANAPl09dxbmVa
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”359Please respect copyright.PENANA44HehZRWv7
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up359Please respect copyright.PENANAldBjfuYkgl
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take359Please respect copyright.PENANANJpQUHNAWO
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train359Please respect copyright.PENANAspFyNWLJm1
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,359Please respect copyright.PENANAGVhJoE7VSE
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”359Please respect copyright.PENANAl9VhHYvJjL
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream359Please respect copyright.PENANAKuyg2oMoEQ
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so359Please respect copyright.PENANA8iMTbZTbMM
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old359Please respect copyright.PENANAjzvPE3jcvH
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics359Please respect copyright.PENANAXUQdZPFfiP
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but359Please respect copyright.PENANAINeT08kHHO
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good359Please respect copyright.PENANAU9AEF1IyDQ
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”359Please respect copyright.PENANAKgdSUZXdfG
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any359Please respect copyright.PENANAQ94EJYYrij
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its359Please respect copyright.PENANATqImwpTWlT
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on359Please respect copyright.PENANA2qIx252Sfp
metal wheels alone.”359Please respect copyright.PENANA857khIzrjt
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,359Please respect copyright.PENANArgUQxvy5vX
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with359Please respect copyright.PENANAGotrWAMQlB
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.359Please respect copyright.PENANApjIkwhruff
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but359Please respect copyright.PENANAS9R1OeTOpN
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast359Please respect copyright.PENANADHHABvubX4
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more359Please respect copyright.PENANA2al40pDY0w
than twenty minutes at best.”359Please respect copyright.PENANAjrDHr6hapg
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”359Please respect copyright.PENANAEKGWxkLrtQ
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her359Please respect copyright.PENANAKpbSOpAiuy
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse359Please respect copyright.PENANAjctXDPEaNX
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop359Please respect copyright.PENANABZZMNxOOMM
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored359Please respect copyright.PENANAAWcpyb234W
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will359Please respect copyright.PENANA4BRt1k9YEH
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;359Please respect copyright.PENANAkwtkmhjnvI
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of359Please respect copyright.PENANAimkqfyL1vf
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely359Please respect copyright.PENANAdqw2bqmxNi
be placed in a better perspective.”359Please respect copyright.PENANAGvHsbCS3yq
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”359Please respect copyright.PENANAeja59pkfQL
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”