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Chapter Four425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GQ1JlAT63
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5RgH1vm2F
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWpJyscCM9n
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6KYRdXn07t
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQ66FyIz5N
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlhB4Z70M7
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqqVNFe1GD
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12dbvBdu4G
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCVk5ZSAmT
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2Tn9pwzG3
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLo402iBrZ8
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJpcN3kYnRh
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI09i12yD1l
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36gov6IXep
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeULXN4ZuP
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHA4jhzbQc
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cGe576qnx
Not anymore.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYylLYPzRfE
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBoihATWX3S
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFq0KlJD51
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdosN43kEvc
famous of them all.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9wH6iLQSa
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXL3diygWz
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEb43bpXUD
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfsYGJ0NFc
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTMp6gfg1v
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP0GPUbLS9w
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkP7g4u4fkP
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKIox8Pssn
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv67Je0SeuG
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LnDzZ0y4f
unlike so many others.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2sGt2NQmbD
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuP7aaj3UyP
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4FMyaIrkL
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjuQf69j4I
person rather than from behind safer pages.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0itvTN3KQw
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1F9aedDkC
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIs4gfYREqh
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlo8SmKmZmt
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡilp2ku4YMk
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0GIdkgq1xa
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtZ8OLZfGm
the jump.”425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROwaqfhOgP
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSJudcGftB
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXebMtBHNEn
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7WBgmVOKY
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwC0f6FcQr
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEiG4D9zHW
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce425Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwopFO52J2
who was expecting what followed.
