Chapter Four105Please respect copyright.PENANAOiZXxnvwob
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their105Please respect copyright.PENANAMP34rEhIiA
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they105Please respect copyright.PENANAQxSDs4Z9wC
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as105Please respect copyright.PENANAPESUTWssNe
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,105Please respect copyright.PENANAG8zCP36BDe
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.105Please respect copyright.PENANAyAudwCHYke
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared105Please respect copyright.PENANA0uYoNDry8v
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst105Please respect copyright.PENANAtfMNXhubQE
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the105Please respect copyright.PENANAKTn48UstD5
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply105Please respect copyright.PENANA9BciXD7Emt
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing105Please respect copyright.PENANAQIYo0jmPFT
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...105Please respect copyright.PENANAJ5Oo2ThIkL
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is105Please respect copyright.PENANAaIYWoFZSLD
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”105Please respect copyright.PENANApXTqsWisgD
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and105Please respect copyright.PENANAYl9EyCtGO0
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts105Please respect copyright.PENANARi1rh64eP4
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.105Please respect copyright.PENANAnze9UcFfWA
Not anymore.105Please respect copyright.PENANAArQmZGkope
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty105Please respect copyright.PENANA6GqwQMLWUV
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing105Please respect copyright.PENANAqw4Em32IQz
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most105Please respect copyright.PENANAopydEoMZKv
famous of them all.105Please respect copyright.PENANAEuxt6Yn1uM
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone105Please respect copyright.PENANAShVaRBEO1g
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole105Please respect copyright.PENANAyUJoikU7tL
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,105Please respect copyright.PENANASwVOqGsk7f
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with105Please respect copyright.PENANAB0y2GxruPo
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy105Please respect copyright.PENANAVamDXs5hYP
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.105Please respect copyright.PENANAA9ICkDeI45
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place105Please respect copyright.PENANA8PaVWukHOk
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.105Please respect copyright.PENANAQxYwurLpUS
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is105Please respect copyright.PENANAsG0Xiua8Lz
unlike so many others.105Please respect copyright.PENANAJApnDxILzd
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or105Please respect copyright.PENANA8lcZWWCYIn
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral105Please respect copyright.PENANAnaCInmDzRa
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in105Please respect copyright.PENANAGZOeq2fmHV
person rather than from behind safer pages.105Please respect copyright.PENANAA9B2ata4Eo
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and105Please respect copyright.PENANAM0KJx0RjBs
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that105Please respect copyright.PENANAmWwWTIprpU
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.105Please respect copyright.PENANAC9r817RoVz
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already105Please respect copyright.PENANAwpuQOWd0Tp
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we105Please respect copyright.PENANASuCcMWv8mG
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made105Please respect copyright.PENANAJYkwGcTZmV
the jump.”105Please respect copyright.PENANANu3SCGxaaY
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards105Please respect copyright.PENANA10VRoK216H
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”105Please respect copyright.PENANAi7F1htPyZs
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then105Please respect copyright.PENANA0ssavC0Py6
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...105Please respect copyright.PENANABQozqwhGph
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”105Please respect copyright.PENANA2LCYJTDnZd
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce105Please respect copyright.PENANAA0JDXa6Xsb
who was expecting what followed.