
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...”