
Chapter Four375Please respect copyright.PENANAN7Hi2A2Yyj
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their375Please respect copyright.PENANAdrGxwgkp4h
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they375Please respect copyright.PENANAwhj8xIh9nJ
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as375Please respect copyright.PENANAy5QZaBFGif
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,375Please respect copyright.PENANAY3ZyCa8Cc7
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.375Please respect copyright.PENANArPcPatxtDY
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared375Please respect copyright.PENANAbKytRDYywu
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst375Please respect copyright.PENANALIrkBkuBbr
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the375Please respect copyright.PENANAfLNMGEm8ku
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply375Please respect copyright.PENANA54fSgglD9E
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing375Please respect copyright.PENANAFVnKLy1pee
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...375Please respect copyright.PENANA54g0fmn6qL
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is375Please respect copyright.PENANAJw1XxlTYit
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”375Please respect copyright.PENANA9WnWTELlpt
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and375Please respect copyright.PENANAlnnLa9bOP3
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts375Please respect copyright.PENANAeFBV1U7Euk
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.375Please respect copyright.PENANAKRB3Wp5b9v
Not anymore.375Please respect copyright.PENANAn5l6JzL1Go
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty375Please respect copyright.PENANA40nNpBoFsU
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing375Please respect copyright.PENANAgHXS92WqzG
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most375Please respect copyright.PENANA8ZUPUkBgrs
famous of them all.375Please respect copyright.PENANAIeHaks0gQm
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone375Please respect copyright.PENANAcqQP0Z2xTN
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole375Please respect copyright.PENANAkPNMQde9j6
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,375Please respect copyright.PENANApBhU1tr1XX
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with375Please respect copyright.PENANAWHnbdBH4qO
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy375Please respect copyright.PENANANhru8ZNnxh
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.375Please respect copyright.PENANAKQI1zxTbTk
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place375Please respect copyright.PENANA1XNuxkAC7n
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.375Please respect copyright.PENANAfisVvSJO82
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is375Please respect copyright.PENANAPAzLZNIzUI
unlike so many others.375Please respect copyright.PENANAz8zwRoVABF
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or375Please respect copyright.PENANAKF3RaOCMV1
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral375Please respect copyright.PENANAR3IqycEr1J
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in375Please respect copyright.PENANAwomQxfJQTg
person rather than from behind safer pages.375Please respect copyright.PENANAofeMmeRnpP
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and375Please respect copyright.PENANA1nGnrtJTEt
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that375Please respect copyright.PENANAFkuCttcUD4
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.375Please respect copyright.PENANAhv9ISsTNp7
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already375Please respect copyright.PENANApm4b4AztQh
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we375Please respect copyright.PENANAvbEIihqxCE
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made375Please respect copyright.PENANAsE6AeGrqnr
the jump.”375Please respect copyright.PENANAXJNg00I9cm
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards375Please respect copyright.PENANA0zJ6KOINiR
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”375Please respect copyright.PENANAbszmOlQz4l
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then375Please respect copyright.PENANARXRHB3hZcJ
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...375Please respect copyright.PENANAA3tb8u7Ou7
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”375Please respect copyright.PENANApl6M5htzy8
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce375Please respect copyright.PENANAu0VHT9RpdN
who was expecting what followed.