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Chapter Four347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡruhSL1Jrc0
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa1tgyhJbkD
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiC5peyuQzn
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhg7NQiT4NV
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtC3dFwfCbq
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQa9t61lSb
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZqUArn174
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl7EqQhpY9X
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadYTkY9hZn
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIqM5QHM7X
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlfWSepdRB
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBaL7Sng8Rk
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDc5gfYg1X
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWmEdTdubU
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchmZT2uQUn
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EDAOGpDMY
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeFtEk9PMb
Not anymore.347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaSG3em8Gpa
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczX8pI7FfV
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0yFqskG0m
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2DDo0er6O
famous of them all.347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgi3LQaklI6
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iasLcGLLE
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jeK6obK0N
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYIbwIQc6e
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFx3vpoCPrR
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZphIqsE5IF
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZz6FruLFv
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn3UMRAfq6G
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufCQVbvwZG
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiF0vlLQQs
unlike so many others.347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rgYD6s4P3
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1RWsnU6Mn
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkIOBz9YVl
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5iX2GvdG9
person rather than from behind safer pages.347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxIHVE2XyV
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEbWSlbRMT
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2j9ElLfrn1
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kkMiqbvZX
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoy2QdBbTuU
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixLlE5Lg6r
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2tgIs0zlK
the jump.”347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkPTBmEzt3
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJevHRJHV3s
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRPoPOPt1A
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhISqa7ZbqU
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkL26buW7P4
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9S8GIaHYN
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce347Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajFVsEdmcn
who was expecting what followed.
