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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.
