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Chapter Six395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNk27ZkMfO
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr5NA9JYiWz
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKb9tSlbZ7E
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkb10Kjsae
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjleNa79aI
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbSNcEuG6V
chance regardless, if so willing...395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlS8b7bJDkE
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNydUqrgb34
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPpRfWQv5V
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnFi6djJNe
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiAx6DzSUYC
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFs1tfn27z
will easily use them up.”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnsLkQ2Hhh
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjAmApYs0k
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX49njZpbvP
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrB8NS0Whv
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhm3aUrqtb
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ612LybTA6H
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡACfO3XDtC2
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlH527GpaJQ
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2dqmNl8Of
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSSIZMZMNe
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNiAnb3qHG
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6jrbC26EO
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IyT1IGHMH
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxybRYYRez
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjqSKMgVnm
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfE0tKQfd6
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Ob5ZX82mY
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG6CgNF1UI2
metal wheels alone.”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQS8RpmETgf
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxK5V5jcqQe
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNESzgf8sMn
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RPBAhiPe6
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg2VqVJ7cN5
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXn60cGyKCc
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy6dn8yoczF
than twenty minutes at best.”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37w3yyfjLy
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiWzu3IadCZ
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMDKLZnwdz
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCSbRmBCe8H
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmoUXT7M0kJ
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rntHItPRI
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsyE7tpk3AW
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi15dHOfiBg
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFPYxhOXwG
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJublIxkwxH
be placed in a better perspective.”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTnHr27Wi6X
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”395Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyYP3VvEU78
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”
