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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.
