
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.