Chapter Four455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9OF55mHoH
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQX9RQZYJS
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4DhAClLgE1
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvR5kpu21y
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuq7XVQcE22
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bvvQLsMv9
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSiMDdGjW4
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5vsUROzKi
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvmIBqIwls
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEI3Jj6O19
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrzAd8wRY1
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8PaTNBYym
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdBOwH099n
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4q9anBDv4E
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnloZJAsQD
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTdnhwlR5M
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vXHGJZbhN
Not anymore.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDVj72EE34
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7c3ETK0UN
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFKT9DMjas
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXVjKvmK7L
famous of them all.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlnQB2tDV2
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3UxssxOsx
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtwKKSLmIw
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRnjsLxqEi
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoeaUxi5Vm
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgNfDmzETv
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyD0aFAwA1y
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyqRIJwPpP
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIP7P3hECM2
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfNxsBIv3a
unlike so many others.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXON4X24EUZ
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbBgjoGOTA
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqBxyFXoqH
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgB0kUeNGzX
person rather than from behind safer pages.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52vdPXZ7zg
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dvuuv3VdX
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUt0YLU5Vop
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoN7G5cHhdr
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMTJb23HAB
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRlBV6z56n
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMnDi63EMw
the jump.”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfMfW1vCMB
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJO4u5ELMBh
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVET5KtU9xZ
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2DDo7ltMx0
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoDa9VtdRd
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdweUr9NuSH
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce455Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0pugqPe0Wg
who was expecting what followed.
