
Chapter Four405Please respect copyright.PENANA8mvyT0Fhh9
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their405Please respect copyright.PENANAhPP4mkMMcP
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they405Please respect copyright.PENANAlqz4iGDCw9
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as405Please respect copyright.PENANAahBxfDjajw
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,405Please respect copyright.PENANAUk57f5LCX4
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.405Please respect copyright.PENANA9CUw6puG79
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared405Please respect copyright.PENANA0DJLJdfH7B
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst405Please respect copyright.PENANAKivUnXad1d
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the405Please respect copyright.PENANAM6kq6eMQE1
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply405Please respect copyright.PENANAhWLfIPYMA4
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing405Please respect copyright.PENANAlBj1utd02g
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...405Please respect copyright.PENANAWWaXw7o99T
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is405Please respect copyright.PENANAX2TGNCoAGd
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”405Please respect copyright.PENANARm75cFbtF6
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and405Please respect copyright.PENANA48QiFGxHFF
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts405Please respect copyright.PENANAtRF5zPh6U8
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.405Please respect copyright.PENANAel68OMdVPx
Not anymore.405Please respect copyright.PENANAZ3c2bT6Cri
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty405Please respect copyright.PENANANeVtQm52Zc
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing405Please respect copyright.PENANAGU4WZd15cm
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most405Please respect copyright.PENANA8YbQVzFg8N
famous of them all.405Please respect copyright.PENANA4ZyY2qif3f
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone405Please respect copyright.PENANAaZjffPR4th
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole405Please respect copyright.PENANAtOls0VaQzZ
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,405Please respect copyright.PENANAR2uKji6ehw
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with405Please respect copyright.PENANAhBnGC6oexq
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy405Please respect copyright.PENANAsdIvVSuUop
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.405Please respect copyright.PENANAGHoRtV1hvR
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place405Please respect copyright.PENANAvLFnczuz37
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.405Please respect copyright.PENANAdIJJg0fhfP
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is405Please respect copyright.PENANAZTWMRTg1MH
unlike so many others.405Please respect copyright.PENANAswdn5q1KvJ
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or405Please respect copyright.PENANAMGMmMvuMWc
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral405Please respect copyright.PENANAkot0ODVOn9
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in405Please respect copyright.PENANAZNOSIx7nF2
person rather than from behind safer pages.405Please respect copyright.PENANAUIwb2hQIJ1
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and405Please respect copyright.PENANAuoyOP844pE
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that405Please respect copyright.PENANAhj6gbfz4XT
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.405Please respect copyright.PENANAhsJt1GoCip
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already405Please respect copyright.PENANAvkR1z8xkxJ
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we405Please respect copyright.PENANAv0spxuQl2X
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made405Please respect copyright.PENANAs5S5cAiLRu
the jump.”405Please respect copyright.PENANAl27uStyg50
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards405Please respect copyright.PENANArauxoJtkgV
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”405Please respect copyright.PENANAXMF55xRIY4
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then405Please respect copyright.PENANAed3zB53yDj
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...405Please respect copyright.PENANASoQxzF6e90
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”405Please respect copyright.PENANAekz17F5hO7
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce405Please respect copyright.PENANASMByFMmkGL
who was expecting what followed.