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Chapter Four301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlcto094sw
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJUa0zEBSd
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfxBMRp8rj5
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaBK8mVJwTW
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMx7NBNVOe
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnQIhZ6eHP
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94MQbGbqXZ
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg55rg6G9VB
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKGIjNTXj0
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWX5t9ghExi
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdrzx7KZDK
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGSkHhT32s
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1NZxKOk0Y
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdxUSavAE3
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxyBGjvJDDd
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9anMWyN8PI
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVC0ofxy7d6
Not anymore.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlkTsapsUr
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivvY1nSLwn
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjA4KkhbsL
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZszwYhFxw6
famous of them all.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqev1cYXjeW
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRzxDzYURD9
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTU72A1T6b
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpFqKODOMl
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamDUWsv9B1
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzyfoWu9Wv
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZbyyWgwkN
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wejvW5uQJ
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk05PgUk16h
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvefghgmFc8
unlike so many others.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpjd7fhvaC
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyx9IuHlwm
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDcwtwm2d2b
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCx4wo7iCq
person rather than from behind safer pages.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ35OfTDvB1
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISGjNoGSu6
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPr3PHBGTM
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpBcmqMMf80
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVtD0LZ1ZV
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYsuIAyzjy
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmRfB5GQY8
the jump.”301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvl5yQt8hWC
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4eYiRsMFAH
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SuvrbhXaM
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRhUnSoEGB
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKKbVyN5Ob
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6NW6N9tKT
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce301Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmNQ990ftc
who was expecting what followed.
