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Chapter Four352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZIhQLjTEW
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzxih9j1hY
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdwCGRKGqa
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUrIx5PPF6
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJPfwRFQOaA
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtxAAQ9git5
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlT6Of4F1hL
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCohzEKQZp
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcoGT7aBr2
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8PLokGfY4
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11ujG2etF1
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyH40jp4xSs
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ196r31ZRKP
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVN3XRjDMfb
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQvcXSaxsx
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HZtKY9qof
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCjuuN78Fu
Not anymore.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfD2Rcx7Ng
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZvF5g5nQa
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ101xXIJpkh
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7D7YHdDoZ
famous of them all.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5tavMPoTr
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2sGMVwWKc0
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFFezvOIea
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPnM7K925r
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfAxhG2QO0
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfcfJHn3VS
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq40hzF3ifH
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52rQMt67Xm
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDpIL7CSCwb
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8f8Hpw8Lxn
unlike so many others.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFPr2LXo5o
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sDU7g45Tq
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPQrJ8bJF3
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Z2XcCmnhT
person rather than from behind safer pages.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8SUoWymHCd
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTDiL3E5LYV
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRWzgNN30o
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6SiHVeE67
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlzE36sC19
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSk2QXtrMjV
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTxvbhYXSE
the jump.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmcodE7FHA
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1iJVyQklxC
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBLm0zbngI
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUxfRAa8UQ
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5mTLLjXD3
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1mKRFrkOr
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RuhwmEULA
who was expecting what followed.
