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“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoY45vVaPjt
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdsuZuU60Gd
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTrCjrbM2l
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5GFnNI6II
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRngWKzHjL
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqQuTOkV7C
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsf8lBWafsp
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrim8BXytT
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xowLAWpES
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtmWerFtkS
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiuWRVFDKe2
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJeLoz25vb
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGz4M306i4
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4swy821XWp
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivblJPJtaQ
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJRwHoOQul
Not anymore.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnT6p2FLnG3
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4WyYHDYFbb
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NbvJG5HQE
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtC41jbfuW
famous of them all.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9F8HmK81mT
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojdQQ7TC5x
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvcJOBHoEWM
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhx3fIsSNzt
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc20EqpPlao
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUBeDAQEKE
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEZ7mrp4Ge
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRveouW22F
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xBAcVkpKq
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgGXSoEO6N
unlike so many others.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIoySaq0b8
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEf1gJa4nr
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmDu27BeCq
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiozfRvkYOr
person rather than from behind safer pages.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcsOKIQGzQR
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCAwv34i7Ax
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVPSPKHbM9
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3NG5MqeBz
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhU1ABTMz0h
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTlSATQ8qu
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Yvvw8x0kH
the jump.”409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQWzWmettc
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgtTx0QRGK
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPLZGE2mXO
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5xVq1FSX0
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEV6dA1lXq
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgIqlOY5wK
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKf3u3xm2UK
who was expecting what followed.
