Chapter Four77Please respect copyright.PENANAda0CazH4z5
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their77Please respect copyright.PENANAAjDEDKVTLc
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they77Please respect copyright.PENANA3b0yZ6NCxE
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as77Please respect copyright.PENANAAY43d5rapr
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,77Please respect copyright.PENANAFxUJmzDTf6
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.77Please respect copyright.PENANAzI1x7dYmlB
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared77Please respect copyright.PENANARsTaRSJ0UQ
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst77Please respect copyright.PENANA97E1DXTA9m
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the77Please respect copyright.PENANARGUrguPKlV
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply77Please respect copyright.PENANAMFOcEDcatV
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing77Please respect copyright.PENANAUpNQpO3ofL
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...77Please respect copyright.PENANA38o7KjjYsq
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is77Please respect copyright.PENANAVsX18vxyKG
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”77Please respect copyright.PENANAsOD1JGrXrp
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and77Please respect copyright.PENANAoVm7c6euIs
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts77Please respect copyright.PENANAvtN68xqDPU
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.77Please respect copyright.PENANA4X2WwaYyQB
Not anymore.77Please respect copyright.PENANAjAQu9fnkV1
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty77Please respect copyright.PENANAMX1ZZ0bKaC
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing77Please respect copyright.PENANArb0vUOluZn
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most77Please respect copyright.PENANAHNkKzPnrAu
famous of them all.77Please respect copyright.PENANApkgkdGWrNx
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone77Please respect copyright.PENANAjebyQU8Ydt
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole77Please respect copyright.PENANAVvNfQJCtNK
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,77Please respect copyright.PENANAfRQK0cjD9l
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with77Please respect copyright.PENANAoYcOfoCu0l
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy77Please respect copyright.PENANA8ata8txYZp
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.77Please respect copyright.PENANAMLwZeRMqc5
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place77Please respect copyright.PENANA51F1lQvUfN
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.77Please respect copyright.PENANA0DE8vpl6Jb
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is77Please respect copyright.PENANA1B90oWuyks
unlike so many others.77Please respect copyright.PENANAsB0XhJnToQ
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or77Please respect copyright.PENANAsrAbpS7Ft1
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral77Please respect copyright.PENANAXvIHQl8IVq
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in77Please respect copyright.PENANAj3TCHxtGVp
person rather than from behind safer pages.77Please respect copyright.PENANAOyGCGAvIys
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and77Please respect copyright.PENANAgyMHr2Xj2C
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that77Please respect copyright.PENANAoQYEiWCHUw
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.77Please respect copyright.PENANAitIeqiNaJf
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already77Please respect copyright.PENANAyf2ai8Jdnr
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we77Please respect copyright.PENANAkAeqSzBWYU
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made77Please respect copyright.PENANAYROPWGMdKs
the jump.”77Please respect copyright.PENANAoQ0J5grwmY
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards77Please respect copyright.PENANAE9ahLC4Ato
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”77Please respect copyright.PENANAOj1MZJN9AE
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then77Please respect copyright.PENANA79i5DEApnZ
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...77Please respect copyright.PENANATzt3fZLnYk
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”77Please respect copyright.PENANAjceRkuZZlQ
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce77Please respect copyright.PENANAWoPe0hjzgP
who was expecting what followed.