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Chapter Four314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOccJQC09DM
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVPwfZx5dG
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjkof6hmVB
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUqlWWshzS
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjOdISChLRE
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2w1zreDyL
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWo5IEixXo
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5P89BqdK5
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEwOYUJiP9
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrV2RWrwPKx
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0djTwzWjNZ
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1T53nbD3vY
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQi1y4v8S5h
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GKBXGAJhN
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu370Dy9ejY
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xhMKN38Oj
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGZRdEEGcN
Not anymore.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Y1CrhDpfT
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1iSoyI0Fj
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvN1QqJgM2
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zzRCLAn7e
famous of them all.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJORfXxWym
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizm9i86YEe
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPs1btwpHbx
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZmELeTK64
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcaZOxtVXGg
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kLGD0Kmub
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKza7m1ULEm
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyC8GYjNR9k
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VsMFQ2DNO
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3VgBwIq0V
unlike so many others.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKyFxhY4oQ
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgekpFT7zCE
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYixLmNYNL
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfgultS299
person rather than from behind safer pages.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7qRTsOorB
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKaYzK2jv7o
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEapjTNrum
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGsj3YnMqys
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0F5M33V9d
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmy00lODv2a
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0TQJsHcQJ
the jump.”314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgcVCLVYMR
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NLRVRHzgp
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWjszG7G1F
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVc4EMl4AQ
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6VfieT5nL
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmI9pDa5uID
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce314Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc28SLNjcd4
who was expecting what followed.
