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Chapter Four348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1XzGf7bHd6
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Fgw7oaSr9
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs09KqVZdyQ
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC5M1pZ6HlE
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqFIZusJgI5
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhNlunzAxZ
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmptxw6lysm
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvBeYfMt7Q
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvWMfs81xY
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbaaRqwdUO
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqlf9j69e1L
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJ8BUF2bLM
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2I1PZFvNb
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEF7Jkk6HNc
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEGlfwBuTa
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzd7CLgE7hA
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrpFQalper
Not anymore.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspsqfSN2Rm
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzL1TmIkEhN
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHSIC5V3zu
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡne2Rx405Gr
famous of them all.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UVn7aChWw
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsF5QtjN84K
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Ruo3U8Kdq
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dM0ZZpmFK
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVJjUnNUUU
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjffuLHU6L
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGoNwRg8MVo
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFHOawAPby
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcylEPX3PC
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1umJfqqYI4
unlike so many others.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4vfS9jKOp
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwi5PGrl8gF
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQn1PHnAIUv
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXyV68EMCK
person rather than from behind safer pages.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETbciLqDOz
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡouCrTJ492G
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjniFUrQNMs
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzoyFBH8XGA
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHpDMDT4i9
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Xaj6mrbbD
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryexakcZtz
the jump.”348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Xyuvfwqe0
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWL52eE7U0
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKC0gbKtEVe
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmsRgosCGo
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6ErguYjQ7
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BWstZUjGJ
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFzTQtxc98
who was expecting what followed.
