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Chapter Four326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1geVWOwj7C
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHXCkGQEtS
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrz9cwtE0QA
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVL1iwHudgu
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRn9yjuJbD
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2yaVrgCpe3
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHr6YbmFNYh
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtB6Xb4b1e
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCt4LrJtluZ
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6J3NNkI67
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpiL7zVO3U
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxignCWXKja
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wVPUdbtvp
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeAqI2jOyl
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGkuKwANPt
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNRLr0U2N4
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyBWE9ACTD
Not anymore.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCB62Ra8Hj
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLexdPBCuF0
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMkLSU6POR
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ihi9E27xk
famous of them all.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqZBn742kg
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZqSvQ3kh0I
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkiW5Uvphf
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYOfek3mQG
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX01yjuBYEj
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEhZSM2CqD
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRPGkl7VfpG
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpcxwAhivxh
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIFv41L15S
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lgGd6F6Wf
unlike so many others.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5FucSExUv
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRRDyU67k9f
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGyIbqOoEy0
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGno9DTqA8w
person rather than from behind safer pages.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4y1Q8Ko42f
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTstAvuDvDr
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrPXWMfuMF
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqa6owFdxH
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcveuCmahnn
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVw0cYoQopN
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQx06DlYjj
the jump.”326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOOHR9GlW0
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLhUZEavcP
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUquq8I3qF
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAIuZyNZvB
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKNquZJXr1
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn98NbrQbhH
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1PmFS3p5i
who was expecting what followed.
