
Chapter Six365Please respect copyright.PENANAs8jQVuQQ3P
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,365Please respect copyright.PENANAX7x350WPxP
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each365Please respect copyright.PENANARD4XB82CIM
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among365Please respect copyright.PENANAJE52XBgvjW
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took365Please respect copyright.PENANAiZFN6ZsSzo
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their365Please respect copyright.PENANAjriqhUVnBG
chance regardless, if so willing...365Please respect copyright.PENANANuRz3f2aBo
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks365Please respect copyright.PENANA0cPqQTD6c1
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems365Please respect copyright.PENANAPPucGHQ2PV
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we365Please respect copyright.PENANAx5I9BMpxJC
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,365Please respect copyright.PENANA28wdbqPXQt
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top365Please respect copyright.PENANAX1arbg3unu
will easily use them up.”365Please respect copyright.PENANAlYVFS7DPQ6
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time365Please respect copyright.PENANA4VaqAmsxJP
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”365Please respect copyright.PENANA9cq4I29OD5
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up365Please respect copyright.PENANAydzgR9Ld0t
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take365Please respect copyright.PENANA1ZWuoezOAt
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train365Please respect copyright.PENANA80CuMAIJvd
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,365Please respect copyright.PENANA9AlDiwz1e6
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”365Please respect copyright.PENANAZLdrfJ90Ad
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream365Please respect copyright.PENANA7ZHhP8oqu6
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so365Please respect copyright.PENANAkWXJKUp3ea
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old365Please respect copyright.PENANARlOeWQCptD
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics365Please respect copyright.PENANASb1pGnqGW5
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but365Please respect copyright.PENANApVKyDsMCuf
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good365Please respect copyright.PENANAecEKUVkbyi
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”365Please respect copyright.PENANAYmfzwdWWMQ
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any365Please respect copyright.PENANAo3xj8il2vt
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its365Please respect copyright.PENANAuW2ctIno0r
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on365Please respect copyright.PENANAjSev0TRStN
metal wheels alone.”365Please respect copyright.PENANAyZmVtysQpO
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,365Please respect copyright.PENANAYgJT9yryFb
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with365Please respect copyright.PENANAdyYygzRESZ
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.365Please respect copyright.PENANAcqxd8Garxu
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but365Please respect copyright.PENANAxlDCNy1B4I
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast365Please respect copyright.PENANA4NCLCAMVUD
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more365Please respect copyright.PENANAIanH433qPU
than twenty minutes at best.”365Please respect copyright.PENANAklT80EEmOW
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”365Please respect copyright.PENANAx1VxmdfJkA
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her365Please respect copyright.PENANAbXDtah9I3N
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse365Please respect copyright.PENANAwrtXp9RiQD
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop365Please respect copyright.PENANAyl8wJzRoJV
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored365Please respect copyright.PENANAbnqrobAXMx
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will365Please respect copyright.PENANAkX5oKUmUE5
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;365Please respect copyright.PENANAbwJlgYmaWN
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of365Please respect copyright.PENANAv5bD6Xsijc
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely365Please respect copyright.PENANAHzMPVKC623
be placed in a better perspective.”365Please respect copyright.PENANAkjTng5o6Pn
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”365Please respect copyright.PENANAixbg4x4BXK
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”