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Chapter Four343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUCMvhjYGf
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡms8I6pb5S9
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvU2IlwkpcZ
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwVh5Y1zWj
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr7GcriGX9E
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NrN1uITqf
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFXhYDzQhJ
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdVaz5XQme
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRiHUYuyAt
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Ken6LWMR4
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLIcceJKEpD
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWoxX2dr1B
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmBBNJBPGF
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡggj8dNhGSq
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnp5itIFUv
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnHIYgYnvC
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjnn9KHrLBX
Not anymore.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0lKTHBWGIj
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Sbwa3r1N5
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcay34HXjan
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIti5APkHqF
famous of them all.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37ZaTp7Hyy
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1OgTXGWYTU
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Mjf5zJnUd
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDBSQwkJhSi
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnW7Q6EekMO
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnigA8WZyh
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqXwjRURK3
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbXdAUhd0eF
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPeWQxc9uTD
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzwOzod4HZ
unlike so many others.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDcOKA6lDp
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqP2ej6VHC
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWLFO5otBa
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3x2iyHpkR1
person rather than from behind safer pages.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKxPxaVHo7
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85ejDzxiC8
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWVfYPQoKd
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwXoDiW1VJ
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUKu0c7vph
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPstUC0kLk
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQecmWWWRr
the jump.”343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hUdsH87Kc
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuq0QOC5uXc
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwevz82IoV
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS9Tv6GeCaz
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjoOvBo6pR
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7V1gvoZXS
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Yww6EtuJu
who was expecting what followed.
