
Chapter Four330Please respect copyright.PENANAsB2d30ERDP
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their330Please respect copyright.PENANASU837GyxV4
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they330Please respect copyright.PENANAkicpTIy4Ng
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as330Please respect copyright.PENANAphzPgpnJej
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,330Please respect copyright.PENANAD8EJvXMU4N
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.330Please respect copyright.PENANA2GjmYMsKqi
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared330Please respect copyright.PENANA9wHtRTzGiu
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst330Please respect copyright.PENANAcloQy6WK88
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the330Please respect copyright.PENANAF5Roi01y82
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply330Please respect copyright.PENANA40vuxfX8x3
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing330Please respect copyright.PENANAWQKn0fMZkw
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...330Please respect copyright.PENANAi0hzXpuuiT
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is330Please respect copyright.PENANABMMg1VBgEU
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”330Please respect copyright.PENANA8yyTlssAql
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and330Please respect copyright.PENANAhUbolhzpe1
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts330Please respect copyright.PENANAsBl0Yfo0mA
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.330Please respect copyright.PENANAz1Im96xmen
Not anymore.330Please respect copyright.PENANAEMPVlRRrpw
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty330Please respect copyright.PENANAVcZnURvHne
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing330Please respect copyright.PENANAOSULApE3tC
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most330Please respect copyright.PENANAJs41d4TgFz
famous of them all.330Please respect copyright.PENANA0HYPcDUjZF
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone330Please respect copyright.PENANAGF9ymcgl2T
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole330Please respect copyright.PENANAuw3vVd1EIK
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,330Please respect copyright.PENANAzYnD2snvdC
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with330Please respect copyright.PENANAFex9WE5dcB
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy330Please respect copyright.PENANAG1LzzglsHg
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.330Please respect copyright.PENANAYDC81Ea7Dl
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place330Please respect copyright.PENANAkiOL1v96sb
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.330Please respect copyright.PENANAl06bJZsH3I
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is330Please respect copyright.PENANAtGIfIAcQ91
unlike so many others.330Please respect copyright.PENANAn9rcRhADYn
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or330Please respect copyright.PENANAA4RV5VB8Bf
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral330Please respect copyright.PENANAu9rqjh5hU6
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in330Please respect copyright.PENANA7NGFgw9KXB
person rather than from behind safer pages.330Please respect copyright.PENANAQmzVbDTMyd
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and330Please respect copyright.PENANAwvnZ84ohTP
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that330Please respect copyright.PENANApih4tF4fpq
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.330Please respect copyright.PENANAT4E99oVPIP
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already330Please respect copyright.PENANAImm2DqWwc2
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we330Please respect copyright.PENANAmF4vsNjTGa
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made330Please respect copyright.PENANAS2LOS0NDWO
the jump.”330Please respect copyright.PENANAMOkJyS7XO0
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards330Please respect copyright.PENANA4PCpwb0rRt
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”330Please respect copyright.PENANADoX2TyzGet
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then330Please respect copyright.PENANADbKClVXZtN
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...330Please respect copyright.PENANATa8oGIqxEA
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”330Please respect copyright.PENANAxfjVMX7cVG
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce330Please respect copyright.PENANA9pK9Fb8TfB
who was expecting what followed.