Chapter Four87Please respect copyright.PENANAx8NULWNJnS
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their87Please respect copyright.PENANAuSy3OBQG1c
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they87Please respect copyright.PENANAJ1YtFD8C8U
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as87Please respect copyright.PENANApk9ERaAUZI
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,87Please respect copyright.PENANAIr3qyoilg3
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.87Please respect copyright.PENANAdNVJQOgOd6
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared87Please respect copyright.PENANAOeCxpUczhN
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst87Please respect copyright.PENANApUONx9TZf1
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the87Please respect copyright.PENANAtROavVtikA
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply87Please respect copyright.PENANASHDIh1bcei
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing87Please respect copyright.PENANAlhm5Kf8HLn
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...87Please respect copyright.PENANA8ibi0BkRWr
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is87Please respect copyright.PENANAza5g7s9lX3
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”87Please respect copyright.PENANAZPldLMCImC
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and87Please respect copyright.PENANAgoeqsTBSlD
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts87Please respect copyright.PENANAwQfXC46OcL
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.87Please respect copyright.PENANAPmsxYCMIOJ
Not anymore.87Please respect copyright.PENANAuaciAEDQwn
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty87Please respect copyright.PENANA750i9ZRE0I
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing87Please respect copyright.PENANA35OkicCZN7
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most87Please respect copyright.PENANAf8PGVWvmAo
famous of them all.87Please respect copyright.PENANAIwhwhwIF8C
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone87Please respect copyright.PENANA3BGG3IHegm
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole87Please respect copyright.PENANA6SPoJOhbHy
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,87Please respect copyright.PENANAMl3Yxsk6ZJ
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with87Please respect copyright.PENANAJ983xgtaiA
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy87Please respect copyright.PENANAaWqV2UPWNz
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.87Please respect copyright.PENANAErrvkOiLth
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place87Please respect copyright.PENANAy0sVPMZd0A
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.87Please respect copyright.PENANAeyuZyBsDPm
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is87Please respect copyright.PENANAx2G4epcPU4
unlike so many others.87Please respect copyright.PENANAzBwCVR3Ig7
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or87Please respect copyright.PENANAFjG0SMT1ZS
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral87Please respect copyright.PENANAviokGmiKlD
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in87Please respect copyright.PENANAiBeV6bVV6r
person rather than from behind safer pages.87Please respect copyright.PENANAZYHKBsNvGe
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and87Please respect copyright.PENANAd0FOCEDZAB
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that87Please respect copyright.PENANAePHk02UuBb
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.87Please respect copyright.PENANAjQvj4OfGJp
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already87Please respect copyright.PENANAP5lSDxdJIt
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we87Please respect copyright.PENANAaxmBLwbuaY
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made87Please respect copyright.PENANASjYoR3wNFN
the jump.”87Please respect copyright.PENANAFUJzyVaUzU
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards87Please respect copyright.PENANAcigtC88RkB
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”87Please respect copyright.PENANABAW2Fpxe6N
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then87Please respect copyright.PENANAWMciBvjHwd
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...87Please respect copyright.PENANAKahaZZtaSo
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”87Please respect copyright.PENANAbXmkDypiVC
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce87Please respect copyright.PENANAXJIocnX4XO
who was expecting what followed.