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Chapter Six303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6AM9VsKqo5
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWE0qLQmVP
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttkdYCikrP
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgKo4sWgFD
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HRHAKlWHT
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4GrzeuYxB
chance regardless, if so willing...303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpTYSqcyFE
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeDfBbDoTP
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq9YbQx3iRg
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZftPGZP1D
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1J22tBwSp
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPx8VegrQF
will easily use them up.”303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOwKWrX5kf
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSBwI21EVZ
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacqZcaV2Xx
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5tQzCUQcd
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMQo9nZT2Y
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bibc2iHwC
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJa0jWA4X7
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWhajBC0a9
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9J09HSiie6
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbOBM2ftoS
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxgKpZQvQ2
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyc8AXKdLzv
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4eqecEp71s
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7K4rMTGAs
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJ2Fhzd2iw
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMXdnWRbiB
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhNisX3hF7v
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMhB0UEDUkk
metal wheels alone.”303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ftvGHKzFw
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2WZb2fM71
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcilDp8p2hL
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1XiCk83fnb
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWYRFUClFF
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCt3RYdyXv
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1nu34Y8uG
than twenty minutes at best.”303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW87AcX37ew
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkUKHkqe1R0
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡREOuHi6PhH
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgk70lAUp3
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyT0mnSxIo
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIazLagHTnp
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbGD6XfoFY
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4CSLsmolw
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdBzD5jbVE
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZhaPGp4cx
be placed in a better perspective.”303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqWkLBC7B1
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”303Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7zjlzb8C2
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”
