Chapter Six117Please respect copyright.PENANANhAa5f0YYU
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,117Please respect copyright.PENANA5wSkZAP8cY
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each117Please respect copyright.PENANAd54zhf6x7T
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among117Please respect copyright.PENANAwR8EQbTVe4
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took117Please respect copyright.PENANADJbgDlsPdF
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their117Please respect copyright.PENANA5KaQU6FhA3
chance regardless, if so willing...117Please respect copyright.PENANAc2zSop2IRj
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks117Please respect copyright.PENANAEeLSigwGZo
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems117Please respect copyright.PENANAVRKKKOMFo0
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we117Please respect copyright.PENANA9M5RQ5PCZ7
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,117Please respect copyright.PENANAlJtgxETP8T
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top117Please respect copyright.PENANAPf0gYel1E9
will easily use them up.”117Please respect copyright.PENANAvqUDJ2HG2j
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time117Please respect copyright.PENANAof7eHVBWFA
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”117Please respect copyright.PENANA4N24qtD4pu
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up117Please respect copyright.PENANALDRl66nsPW
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take117Please respect copyright.PENANAtbsrYZlqjG
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train117Please respect copyright.PENANAg0dnkifNKd
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,117Please respect copyright.PENANAsUazsiQu9U
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”117Please respect copyright.PENANAchPmJZDdbD
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream117Please respect copyright.PENANAmluUKl8ueq
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so117Please respect copyright.PENANA4tJVXSxJo6
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old117Please respect copyright.PENANAIh1fVuUbAI
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics117Please respect copyright.PENANAncNvS7KA04
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but117Please respect copyright.PENANAdKKU9tBCBi
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good117Please respect copyright.PENANAyiwoi9kzdV
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”117Please respect copyright.PENANA6bfbVtCh29
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any117Please respect copyright.PENANAExzjkEoTaJ
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its117Please respect copyright.PENANA0F5VJf00on
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on117Please respect copyright.PENANAbxJ2cKjfiz
metal wheels alone.”117Please respect copyright.PENANAlrM0LtmAGq
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,117Please respect copyright.PENANAPWjTYHWWsI
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with117Please respect copyright.PENANAHQCla5F7o3
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.117Please respect copyright.PENANA66UYxDugd6
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but117Please respect copyright.PENANAiUaKFfgADk
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast117Please respect copyright.PENANA7uIyCaDtQi
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more117Please respect copyright.PENANAPxtzqz6r0R
than twenty minutes at best.”117Please respect copyright.PENANA77ZsWeZmYV
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”117Please respect copyright.PENANAemLi9yX1ta
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her117Please respect copyright.PENANAGuKs2HfMsd
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse117Please respect copyright.PENANAyxt4IyHoQB
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop117Please respect copyright.PENANA1SivJ304EW
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored117Please respect copyright.PENANAh1TRLpPc4C
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will117Please respect copyright.PENANAAIXwa0equM
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;117Please respect copyright.PENANAsyTiOJGPOz
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of117Please respect copyright.PENANAS4LT95lYuT
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely117Please respect copyright.PENANAaQgAoMhm4q
be placed in a better perspective.”117Please respect copyright.PENANA9bLoRCtnsr
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”117Please respect copyright.PENANAY9InG5UrsR
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”