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Chapter Four442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXo7ZOMaWjF
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe14d1qJAyu
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHg3HAgHqi
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSShvFca1h
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcips3dwfhK
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFHcArNfUv
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRMVcIPu8B
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkowN7IKYp
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pnBYP1hbc
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHHOfQzYQx
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JnYmTqqov
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9j399LEDa
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtF4eZtfbCs
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHGfMvWbnL
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPbVMk4Hgu
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLVktIzMvm
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurn0CpKvtT
Not anymore.442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6on6fvz3N5
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqOdJkckwT
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbwdxBn6Dq
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOBmx62AAN
famous of them all.442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobydSaLAKV
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQwpBG7ZE5
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Gxg4L7MzC
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vHTLKcjok
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHStryfWBrE
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡveBAC74E59
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZttggASKA
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjOpF31K1Cb
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3ErtLngUy
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYeDeqBIrVZ
unlike so many others.442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ifFvUclob
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucQMiUB0uU
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JFBorziAp
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bg9TxlOSc
person rather than from behind safer pages.442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCC6nQhMyWy
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡayXsYdvprr
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0eKOpFX8cb
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvlb28JGb1T
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEyTRFX0KK
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4Ld4gtxO9
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSJ3NTvRld
the jump.”442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9DTqII0nra
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWKYUQ7Oxg
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGTbUutAC5
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7z6k3YoMY8
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5cdXdlI9x
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAa1Y0Mg7o
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce442Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLdcBv4JpUC
who was expecting what followed.
