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Chapter Four406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfomXDbFFh
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQuxp5HzbGO
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrChZrhhb3
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAH1aFQ7bW
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNAciXBUKC
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDQuQ6gQhJ
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQFiXQwGVi
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhzmNR49PjQ
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcc13NIUahz
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBHmyADTOU
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1kaLGH2mW
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5sYSo4PBvb
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKz6wJ5EeXY
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8c3d8LcFgW
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTcx67dWUz
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyn2Q3wJub
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUTi015UQP
Not anymore.406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNiLOAMdNhV
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRF0myCcsUL
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWnI7S2AmX
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbqZgJQUob
famous of them all.406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5c1ax1hsx1
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9GRFJbN8gk
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkwyaVUB1e
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhk4cUdEjH
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDHg7o2nLZ
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0wswrNPBj
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDvJW9SHWK
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkRjMzXYqX
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbxrCG3NSCh
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaV2ISCV2u8
unlike so many others.406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iT9VeNE8y
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSoPsgpxtD
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Dub5TM54p
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgxDqOm1dbb
person rather than from behind safer pages.406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuVTx7uVcF
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZALlW9k6i5
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2u8kBH7MLG
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3Qh17p80D
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6EeZ4Mbgs
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7aUWFx87A5
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IiAIhrJQa
the jump.”406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEeUC3wFnJY
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm3T1xsP4Lj
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP4IHrO9lb6
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP48S9D7ddt
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2WHnTHFSj
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3KuS77IHH
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce406Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTrm0w63Vb
who was expecting what followed.
