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Chapter Six386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcmq4bWjUa
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAA6vaKXGy
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgMJToSjKC
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡET7lyaJUdF
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hSM4LBFz6
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9Dah7DCBe
chance regardless, if so willing...386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YOsWtf2mq
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApaUVZn8XB
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR4gqYtakGk
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhZFmOtpBA
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDahVt1coIk
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8jriKS0n8
will easily use them up.”386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKB3Go8gD0
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwt2BZynC6X
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmVwcIez3Y
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsv27qlbKD5
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnXeJclFjGB
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmZY65i2fE
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8ocs6xO4z
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8NwWiPcXsF
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4QJzSAwV4
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdpB8YU6kb
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE33fiq5X1r
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbVuUAi8Aw
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngM1hAdFPl
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbzHknl6MG
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk0Q32iqqr5
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIP2LYF9fda
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINnZUUO3G4
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4B1HohObE
metal wheels alone.”386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFolutzYDD
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhnc6eo2E5
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhs5Q4ayOmi
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGomnVaLp9
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPTI1rMdcEW
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF2oG5C14KE
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIanJ5fuQ4
than twenty minutes at best.”386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYrneEhNUOe
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQNyEWIHXA
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ08MOp5NoO
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0E087jwB4q
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvF9awNzxb
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrUfYgG0jL
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjHHq48gMK
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0oUQAaQc4j
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0j1bYYGZH
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4noxyXI2ob
be placed in a better perspective.”386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFU5ni8hU2
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgdfCD32e0
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”
