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Chapter Four313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtx7enAPlOC
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlUwhbc1ks
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMT5qGEeXz6
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzE2EvScU7
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPL5aqvTCM
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNap5cSEqX
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmwgEKODrh
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PPI0IYLa0
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZ9qG5aHcC
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAc4pHsRas
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8Ql1uUiH0
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88OW754bOp
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpipzPlnj2
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkfIFXgt5c
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0vsCOffNm
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8i6lMb4mj
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewnEoOjPxL
Not anymore.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84bC3mH2xt
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gC8fTcuWJ
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUEeXTQbLU
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4TJm0djQz3
famous of them all.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUOhemPz3u
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5cP7sPEMJ7
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3ZQMZRqBP
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbLN3hOVXb
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlaHaOtbqu
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIRfjoRpVF
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcWUUWoekbI
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNAJyWg4r9
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJt1rbGFdV
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqjmPjNc7C
unlike so many others.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RXEb3OHnh
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcOHdAesyb
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSuD3RJnFI
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tes10DW0B
person rather than from behind safer pages.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVltAaBPIyb
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXB35VPsuC
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXkyl0Tg7Z
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8DEKA1PlJO
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfSU6MMeEw
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9d3vBYmM55
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjBUvrQdAP
the jump.”313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUPS9BTN2N
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKmJhJq8Dlv
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XCegxz63Y
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdQ22l5i81
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhfTEUBpaX
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwHPIft2Nc
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce313Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKvDTz0qvM
who was expecting what followed.
