Chapter Four83Please respect copyright.PENANAqi9tBiTR0Y
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their83Please respect copyright.PENANABuY21ITmu5
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they83Please respect copyright.PENANAVFItMVl5xs
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as83Please respect copyright.PENANAJrVUZz653B
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,83Please respect copyright.PENANAxMymlgfyBg
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.83Please respect copyright.PENANAFh5NOJDx9T
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared83Please respect copyright.PENANARm69M7sBnh
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst83Please respect copyright.PENANAitprHWvEey
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the83Please respect copyright.PENANAg2Tq4L34yJ
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply83Please respect copyright.PENANAjlJXrbbXdz
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing83Please respect copyright.PENANAqpPCJrnHWY
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...83Please respect copyright.PENANAqmyTGevXTD
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is83Please respect copyright.PENANA3MOOArTiGz
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”83Please respect copyright.PENANAkqEDeiUo6e
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and83Please respect copyright.PENANAB2YSt5jpqA
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts83Please respect copyright.PENANAFEo8QB2VWV
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.83Please respect copyright.PENANArQjulnTD3o
Not anymore.83Please respect copyright.PENANAkLOJDgeis3
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty83Please respect copyright.PENANAgDc98dSsxJ
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing83Please respect copyright.PENANA6rNYVqe9cO
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most83Please respect copyright.PENANAkD6oeSZaaO
famous of them all.83Please respect copyright.PENANAj9akGnWfvt
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone83Please respect copyright.PENANAObOomXuMUX
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole83Please respect copyright.PENANAKsuttPkNn3
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,83Please respect copyright.PENANA2faMmddK4o
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with83Please respect copyright.PENANAkmnpOVQy6k
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy83Please respect copyright.PENANAKgd4gFEO9v
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.83Please respect copyright.PENANARaia4YBqQ9
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place83Please respect copyright.PENANAqyR5Ov33vI
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.83Please respect copyright.PENANASxj6G36idF
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is83Please respect copyright.PENANAY3UxA1I9f5
unlike so many others.83Please respect copyright.PENANADU2WkOWE82
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or83Please respect copyright.PENANASJKZNSILjK
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral83Please respect copyright.PENANAuAS8vG7bvt
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in83Please respect copyright.PENANAmYEduqkl5L
person rather than from behind safer pages.83Please respect copyright.PENANAp7cJtFieDF
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and83Please respect copyright.PENANAblGmpBTNWg
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that83Please respect copyright.PENANAkdn6c8l7sJ
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.83Please respect copyright.PENANA79927iajR4
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already83Please respect copyright.PENANAxfFur1W9yq
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we83Please respect copyright.PENANAgQODuKglmN
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made83Please respect copyright.PENANAKL7IONzuAH
the jump.”83Please respect copyright.PENANAq2Bi7S1v0N
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards83Please respect copyright.PENANAQvFzQ6vhr1
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”83Please respect copyright.PENANADcopsMj0WU
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then83Please respect copyright.PENANAAWKNqFnN16
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...83Please respect copyright.PENANAEAmP2PyLuh
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”83Please respect copyright.PENANATtj5GfAMx0
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce83Please respect copyright.PENANAeJpyOgptDf
who was expecting what followed.