
Chapter Five396Please respect copyright.PENANAYZyCjyArBP
“Briefing”
Every one of us here has a privileged position, as we all know; we are fortunate396Please respect copyright.PENANAUUWnS3Y2dE
to serve our nation and our ruler to unparalleled levels, we are chosen and396Please respect copyright.PENANA6ZJv46P4hj
with our actions, we display the very best our kingdom has to offer. We are396Please respect copyright.PENANAzYmpidbGLm
its strength and its cunning. We undertake what very few can even consider, and we396Please respect copyright.PENANAphfuwtVNrp
always succeed.396Please respect copyright.PENANAjWkGRcwWsP
That is what we do, who we are.396Please respect copyright.PENANAPtXVHCfTUp
We are both the first arrow and the rumoured dagger. We are fortunate for we are396Please respect copyright.PENANARG6YrkVjmp
thus allowed to see and know more than most ever will, but we are still far from seeing396Please respect copyright.PENANAX4bYajkIWR
and knowing everything, of hearing all the secrets. We are not told of certain things396Please respect copyright.PENANAPltuTlhbDT
unless urgency for our services demands it and so sometimes, most the times, all the396Please respect copyright.PENANAqHVBUwbLMf
privileged information is shared with us forcibly.Usually and unfortunately at the very396Please respect copyright.PENANAquEEGDsJaC
last hour and always at the most basic level required for our success, and anything396Please respect copyright.PENANA97Iob6dJdQ
else that I come to learn must be importuned, but such a thing has never hindered us.396Please respect copyright.PENANAacDKo9Ucbb
Duty calls to us, our king bestows upon us the knowledge he deems necessary for us396Please respect copyright.PENANAI4ZjUtQex8
to succeed, and we always do.396Please respect copyright.PENANA7JlR7M8WdD
Tonight will be no different. We will succeed regardless of how little we know.396Please respect copyright.PENANAhvnE1q0aHr
Always remember that is who we are. Now that’s out of the way...396Please respect copyright.PENANAlneYFgAN4m
I will now say something I do not usually need to tell you...396Please respect copyright.PENANAGc2SK1hI2l
I want everyone here to be extremely careful tonight and to never, under any396Please respect copyright.PENANA1RMOzzCKgI
circumstance, underestimate the situation around you or even worse to overestimate396Please respect copyright.PENANA0258BluQ4M
yourselves. I have always been reminded that all things should be taken in moderation,396Please respect copyright.PENANAKCa6qTPM5s
even experience, for too much of it can also harm. These are always important words396Please respect copyright.PENANAgmZyG9yJOY
I think, but it is not my intent to bother your ears with them...396Please respect copyright.PENANA4oIpLU1scL
I will just leave you with this: I want every single one of you, tonight, to remember396Please respect copyright.PENANAmlfqZcI3RT
at all times why we succeed...396Please respect copyright.PENANATQ6n36RVJS
I ask you all to promise me and yourselves this. Indulge me, please.396Please respect copyright.PENANACsGHM6Z06F
Tonight, will be a vastly different mission from any we had previously been charged396Please respect copyright.PENANAp4J6AJqZ8T
with, in both time and geography.396Please respect copyright.PENANAutUIchq5uA
We are headed to a place like no other and never before has so little time been given396Please respect copyright.PENANAz6zRXRzsFZ
to us to accomplish a mission. Never had I heard such urgency in his majesty’s voice.396Please respect copyright.PENANALpV3QLKdhB
I was instructed to warn you that this is the most important mission the Hand has396Please respect copyright.PENANAR4jIYsVdl4
ever been charged with - these are words from King Hervies himself as he stared me396Please respect copyright.PENANA3gjRvmtsHP
in the eyes.396Please respect copyright.PENANA20ZjtKqB6c
Be always mindful of this.396Please respect copyright.PENANAE59Jw0mEuG
So, as I am sure you are aware by now, we are heading up there, towards the top of396Please respect copyright.PENANAsCk648BZDg
that mountain, into the facility established since the incident that killed this place.396Please respect copyright.PENANAjWS7KfJbRt
I was told that we are not to expect any encountered resistance hence we bring only396Please respect copyright.PENANAAaffvBEdqS
our basic weaponry, I was also warned that this mission is not one of search and rescue396Please respect copyright.PENANAiY0h7Sw25L
no matter how dire the situation presented to us.396Please respect copyright.PENANAShXxEHNCsV
We are not to go out of our way to rescue someone if such a scenario, however396Please respect copyright.PENANAyjK8WCtlz9
unlikely, is presented to us. We are to move in fully prepared and expecting the worst396Please respect copyright.PENANAIGYxGGPd9Q
possible situation as we always do, for they never call us in otherwise. All we know as of396Please respect copyright.PENANAodpFc0KGHg
now is that all forms of communication between the palace and all those stationed up396Please respect copyright.PENANAZ3ypVo8XR0
there were lost after six years of assiduity, cut off deliberately but not by our majesty’s396Please respect copyright.PENANA4zPFKvxMA5
command.396Please respect copyright.PENANAT7K99v7Qxd
Those people stationed there come up with something, a discovery of great396Please respect copyright.PENANAq8RlAqjwSp
importance, unprecedented. Whether it was one of the many research teams that396Please respect copyright.PENANAiMI9DDdUn6
achieved it, or it was unburied by the digging team, this I do not know. I was not told396Please respect copyright.PENANAxBIi88PKyE
about this.