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Chapter Four449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJe1eKyGMb
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWeaFB3yEel
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNqutrESPiK
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgCh9yy0oe
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3neAyhlLnm
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwl7H267ucb
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmm5BchpiL
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZIuTomQm2
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4R0NTBtXE
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexrmoEoyJe
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpAVjCzqxN
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqi1dU53vz2
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJodZDq2cA
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbu0Tl94VPd
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Vt7jTJz2G
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1aknz3Bd1
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7XBJ6kbE2x
Not anymore.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYiaSF0Sg2Q
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXelabHOOQ
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdE2EqszpN
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDy8JLBRWjo
famous of them all.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6xvyFcLPsq
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWJSJckoHs
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mnBI2iveS
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDbzC8LRgX
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrZ8XTiIzF
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXd0aFwlzU
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl6Sxtq1WOm
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBnLR5EQx4
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SXTzGrl53
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HIvsKExoG
unlike so many others.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Uz8jBLNSc
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4F1NrKlPu
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6bz7hn7g3
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4267744WsT
person rather than from behind safer pages.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPUatTyS5e
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeMI5msyyV
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWsyyaIC475
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqqRLRd5wu
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAzOICagLRv
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrf51yDPwS
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8cs3d4fEP
the jump.”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIpEt6AWKN
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJlOfmRMXT
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjq2KLNvsQD
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPSFf7Ob5t
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwq3PEVxPrD
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pr0r2Pwvk
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce449Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOYT7VX8xl
who was expecting what followed.
