
Chapter Six321Please respect copyright.PENANA9fN0uSoGjs
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,321Please respect copyright.PENANAAVd1UkM3UG
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each321Please respect copyright.PENANAW91uhhIuCs
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among321Please respect copyright.PENANAkJAfJh8zYA
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took321Please respect copyright.PENANA2IJz4DPxDy
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their321Please respect copyright.PENANAudmHiVz12q
chance regardless, if so willing...321Please respect copyright.PENANAFA7WCB5keI
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks321Please respect copyright.PENANAj26m4z3jT8
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems321Please respect copyright.PENANAuK6h8Lt3IY
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we321Please respect copyright.PENANAhzOWMbJmxZ
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,321Please respect copyright.PENANAJG4xJRXkeO
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top321Please respect copyright.PENANAYdXjrqpyWx
will easily use them up.”321Please respect copyright.PENANAWf63Zo05DF
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time321Please respect copyright.PENANAHDJPLVloUb
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”321Please respect copyright.PENANAwe71Igouna
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up321Please respect copyright.PENANAd5ztOf8Cf8
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take321Please respect copyright.PENANAc6ZyOFL3za
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train321Please respect copyright.PENANAmUWSkuwO27
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,321Please respect copyright.PENANAbVayL7YEUi
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”321Please respect copyright.PENANAwN9A9YGxC6
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream321Please respect copyright.PENANAAXyggdAm8s
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so321Please respect copyright.PENANArG5PwJoFcS
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old321Please respect copyright.PENANANSSiXTxyq2
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics321Please respect copyright.PENANANBBKeuPzLB
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but321Please respect copyright.PENANAPzYXlrDGLj
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good321Please respect copyright.PENANAa9tW0jZj1H
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”321Please respect copyright.PENANA4hxbe1QkEL
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any321Please respect copyright.PENANA9ouf79SPmc
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its321Please respect copyright.PENANAXuP8L4Gr0Y
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on321Please respect copyright.PENANAX26LtMiVpJ
metal wheels alone.”321Please respect copyright.PENANA0FxI53hYxz
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,321Please respect copyright.PENANA9Fzq8yBewp
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with321Please respect copyright.PENANAmAvCdFI2TE
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.321Please respect copyright.PENANAyxb4uDdYEt
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but321Please respect copyright.PENANAUtIxmS1mOo
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast321Please respect copyright.PENANAA62gmRyr6o
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more321Please respect copyright.PENANAg2H2SaYtGU
than twenty minutes at best.”321Please respect copyright.PENANAbXvEZvcThv
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”321Please respect copyright.PENANAo4vT9zvqys
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her321Please respect copyright.PENANAqRmTBmGt5Z
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse321Please respect copyright.PENANAE8oS1P7aEo
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop321Please respect copyright.PENANA4XfWnnuPLG
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored321Please respect copyright.PENANAK5Wz4Kq7Jc
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will321Please respect copyright.PENANAp8BWNBdMF3
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;321Please respect copyright.PENANAImAobP2ESl
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of321Please respect copyright.PENANAIZeWUZXTri
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely321Please respect copyright.PENANAg1p0Twv6K4
be placed in a better perspective.”321Please respect copyright.PENANAkGtO49sKyj
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”321Please respect copyright.PENANAcJnLfrIuQZ
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”