Chapter Six103Please respect copyright.PENANAnReGHS9wkR
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,103Please respect copyright.PENANAKDH2uQrPFw
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each103Please respect copyright.PENANAJmPx283uRf
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among103Please respect copyright.PENANAWzmJxj2xWC
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took103Please respect copyright.PENANAon4vzErMzf
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their103Please respect copyright.PENANAVVxCTRpEyE
chance regardless, if so willing...103Please respect copyright.PENANAtiJS3K6o6Q
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks103Please respect copyright.PENANAvrkAVSOm4Q
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems103Please respect copyright.PENANAaA7wLnZu6e
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we103Please respect copyright.PENANANUdBEnkLQF
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,103Please respect copyright.PENANAum2ldWri08
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top103Please respect copyright.PENANAhe7gBHpOAZ
will easily use them up.”103Please respect copyright.PENANAZJWo6pbU0l
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time103Please respect copyright.PENANAmb1sM0oGJn
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”103Please respect copyright.PENANAmifwtlcZwz
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up103Please respect copyright.PENANAtZ4KMLu0Rh
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take103Please respect copyright.PENANAhXNg8HgcsY
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train103Please respect copyright.PENANAEMXdMEodMi
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,103Please respect copyright.PENANAcOUjbTj3mN
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”103Please respect copyright.PENANA0VS6n3im9j
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream103Please respect copyright.PENANA2mbnaBBaMQ
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so103Please respect copyright.PENANAvlimYbrtGP
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old103Please respect copyright.PENANAa9gspCW1GX
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics103Please respect copyright.PENANA9pRCpMVfJ7
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but103Please respect copyright.PENANAAdMceYT3ev
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good103Please respect copyright.PENANALImUd9B2Zb
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”103Please respect copyright.PENANAVPx886XfzY
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any103Please respect copyright.PENANAJWiqr3FTBr
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its103Please respect copyright.PENANA0WQVhPi4Dy
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on103Please respect copyright.PENANAHWxfhEpBoy
metal wheels alone.”103Please respect copyright.PENANA9jehnyT6bc
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,103Please respect copyright.PENANApWlXcfHYQK
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with103Please respect copyright.PENANA7emMpc56Z4
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.103Please respect copyright.PENANAqpGnmdmiVb
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but103Please respect copyright.PENANA0uHOw3EirX
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast103Please respect copyright.PENANAtiVl76H119
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more103Please respect copyright.PENANAd3DAXL4jVi
than twenty minutes at best.”103Please respect copyright.PENANAfOcEzVYGko
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”103Please respect copyright.PENANAfvZ3heaKPt
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her103Please respect copyright.PENANAZDTYi0CmUS
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse103Please respect copyright.PENANAcxcJkX6CDr
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop103Please respect copyright.PENANABRbLYiPYVm
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored103Please respect copyright.PENANAsjxjJmieLY
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will103Please respect copyright.PENANAugzTyluE3f
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;103Please respect copyright.PENANArTPew6dHrN
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of103Please respect copyright.PENANAoWEgMc6p40
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely103Please respect copyright.PENANAxjfnMd75gJ
be placed in a better perspective.”103Please respect copyright.PENANAyGAftyXdts
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”103Please respect copyright.PENANA1W1QzntyCF
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”