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Chapter Four376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg8XYfuOgtE
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvG8Kr3LqF
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ktAdwFCZZ
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6X4kO5yt0d
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBkXs285gv
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazHTtMFxyY
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6RYnTtzg4
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEO1N6xUAWv
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJcwR64YPD
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMT0wEd46A
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrAfvcHMCc
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3O871mPCxf
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6eOtTNCEI
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJRhGezIJB
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRkDadOWvk
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Hmwe2Jvzb
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LXe5F5Bkx
Not anymore.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FxYKvpzme
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxYdx7l3XU
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcES1vPGMxZ
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6LrfHIEuDo
famous of them all.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEY8RzWX1pT
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8DTDtqfPcv
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvm6WnlEsqu
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyhoxLfkZq
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBTQaxsUaz
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFADiCghMsF
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkyP5l0tYh
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0p5O9eA8P
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25SKfDBMPz
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1f4bgXAjrE
unlike so many others.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡesPqjyblqz
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqlA2EA0Rz
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xSN68qggg
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoU4uMVl5Ft
person rather than from behind safer pages.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡET5nKH8a1p
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCiEweHnsdL
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZs25LdRdI
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jrO37Cqfm
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ39tjf1YX9B
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrmfftIgrM
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MN3rYvlpo
the jump.”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjEpoZI6jk
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1noWzZmnuj
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezj1u80zHC
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTc9Gn5id2
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEgzOdIGtxO
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULOLszHir9
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce376Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUUB8VLiGe
who was expecting what followed.
