Chapter Five102Please respect copyright.PENANA4QF655tO8i
“Briefing”
Every one of us here has a privileged position, as we all know; we are fortunate102Please respect copyright.PENANAmLdCD7HxTz
to serve our nation and our ruler to unparalleled levels, we are chosen and102Please respect copyright.PENANATzjrcjAvBV
with our actions, we display the very best our kingdom has to offer. We are102Please respect copyright.PENANAuz69qC8gZ7
its strength and its cunning. We undertake what very few can even consider, and we102Please respect copyright.PENANAu4LkDiXPm6
always succeed.102Please respect copyright.PENANA1dCe9km6WZ
That is what we do, who we are.102Please respect copyright.PENANAGQ6BwG22qi
We are both the first arrow and the rumoured dagger. We are fortunate for we are102Please respect copyright.PENANAlk908HSHhb
thus allowed to see and know more than most ever will, but we are still far from seeing102Please respect copyright.PENANAbMHiksybVI
and knowing everything, of hearing all the secrets. We are not told of certain things102Please respect copyright.PENANAtQC0CAJvga
unless urgency for our services demands it and so sometimes, most the times, all the102Please respect copyright.PENANA4nwleshGqv
privileged information is shared with us forcibly.Usually and unfortunately at the very102Please respect copyright.PENANAD95TuoKGxm
last hour and always at the most basic level required for our success, and anything102Please respect copyright.PENANAIqMtjChAVH
else that I come to learn must be importuned, but such a thing has never hindered us.102Please respect copyright.PENANAuU6mueYgyY
Duty calls to us, our king bestows upon us the knowledge he deems necessary for us102Please respect copyright.PENANACRq5p3Wqti
to succeed, and we always do.102Please respect copyright.PENANAIZYVCKRhoW
Tonight will be no different. We will succeed regardless of how little we know.102Please respect copyright.PENANAw34KCq5AqG
Always remember that is who we are. Now that’s out of the way...102Please respect copyright.PENANAZ8Yq44Q1d8
I will now say something I do not usually need to tell you...102Please respect copyright.PENANAwUlogc5btp
I want everyone here to be extremely careful tonight and to never, under any102Please respect copyright.PENANAJxee6qf2LB
circumstance, underestimate the situation around you or even worse to overestimate102Please respect copyright.PENANAy9AfGfw2Z9
yourselves. I have always been reminded that all things should be taken in moderation,102Please respect copyright.PENANA4Q7FOvFNwP
even experience, for too much of it can also harm. These are always important words102Please respect copyright.PENANAZB3zQBDqZy
I think, but it is not my intent to bother your ears with them...102Please respect copyright.PENANAAMN0XVzd0J
I will just leave you with this: I want every single one of you, tonight, to remember102Please respect copyright.PENANAZus8PNLYdE
at all times why we succeed...102Please respect copyright.PENANAhdh2yVL1xg
I ask you all to promise me and yourselves this. Indulge me, please.102Please respect copyright.PENANAgaSJ5dBq5k
Tonight, will be a vastly different mission from any we had previously been charged102Please respect copyright.PENANAIlV3v4JBdK
with, in both time and geography.102Please respect copyright.PENANAX0HuKzCeFZ
We are headed to a place like no other and never before has so little time been given102Please respect copyright.PENANAxy5LSXEGqo
to us to accomplish a mission. Never had I heard such urgency in his majesty’s voice.102Please respect copyright.PENANAUggQsfHPBq
I was instructed to warn you that this is the most important mission the Hand has102Please respect copyright.PENANAaOVmiWfq4q
ever been charged with - these are words from King Hervies himself as he stared me102Please respect copyright.PENANA49oDW2waTE
in the eyes.102Please respect copyright.PENANAsNhVpoEUtP
Be always mindful of this.102Please respect copyright.PENANAPtH7LRVnva
So, as I am sure you are aware by now, we are heading up there, towards the top of102Please respect copyright.PENANA6ADxJIFJ3N
that mountain, into the facility established since the incident that killed this place.102Please respect copyright.PENANAPlLNwagaUv
I was told that we are not to expect any encountered resistance hence we bring only102Please respect copyright.PENANAAUujfTUuWA
our basic weaponry, I was also warned that this mission is not one of search and rescue102Please respect copyright.PENANAp3nstHFVdn
no matter how dire the situation presented to us.102Please respect copyright.PENANA75iMwqaIQy
We are not to go out of our way to rescue someone if such a scenario, however102Please respect copyright.PENANAomFg8PFs2X
unlikely, is presented to us. We are to move in fully prepared and expecting the worst102Please respect copyright.PENANAM6a8srTJup
possible situation as we always do, for they never call us in otherwise. All we know as of102Please respect copyright.PENANAkFSOt5vQKo
now is that all forms of communication between the palace and all those stationed up102Please respect copyright.PENANAFolKFBfkgA
there were lost after six years of assiduity, cut off deliberately but not by our majesty’s102Please respect copyright.PENANAW4fUymdjyO
command.102Please respect copyright.PENANAFAfx8d68pd
Those people stationed there come up with something, a discovery of great102Please respect copyright.PENANAjfgTDPgXp9
importance, unprecedented. Whether it was one of the many research teams that102Please respect copyright.PENANA1onLWOk5oS
achieved it, or it was unburied by the digging team, this I do not know. I was not told102Please respect copyright.PENANACzfCRolq5a
about this.