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Chapter Four375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7Hi2A2Yyj
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrGxwgkp4h
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwhj8xIh9nJ
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5QZaBFGif
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3ZyCa8Cc7
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPcPatxtDY
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKytRDYywu
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLIrkBkuBbr
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLNMGEm8ku
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54fSgglD9E
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFVnKLy1pee
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54g0fmn6qL
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJw1XxlTYit
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WnWTELlpt
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnnLa9bOP3
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFBV1U7Euk
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRB3Wp5b9v
Not anymore.375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5l6JzL1Go
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ40nNpBoFsU
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHXS92WqzG
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ZUPUkBgrs
famous of them all.375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIeHaks0gQm
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqQP0Z2xTN
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPNMQde9j6
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpBhU1tr1XX
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHnbdBH4qO
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhru8ZNnxh
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQI1zxTbTk
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1XNuxkAC7n
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfisVvSJO82
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAzLZNIzUI
unlike so many others.375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8zwRoVABF
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKF3RaOCMV1
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR3IqycEr1J
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwomQxfJQTg
person rather than from behind safer pages.375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofeMmeRnpP
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1nGnrtJTEt
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkuCttcUD4
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhv9ISsTNp7
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpm4b4AztQh
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbEIihqxCE
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsE6AeGrqnr
the jump.”375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJNg00I9cm
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zJ6KOINiR
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbszmOlQz4l
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXRHB3hZcJ
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3tb8u7Ou7
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpl6M5htzy8
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce375Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0VHT9RpdN
who was expecting what followed.
