Chapter Four85Please respect copyright.PENANAEOydJ4QWba
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their85Please respect copyright.PENANABfRn2kkxL4
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they85Please respect copyright.PENANAeJV6XKTl6k
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as85Please respect copyright.PENANAtb3YLT0rgM
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,85Please respect copyright.PENANATeiDjmtbD9
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.85Please respect copyright.PENANA2DL1ry6o4w
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared85Please respect copyright.PENANAmjb5Apoy2W
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst85Please respect copyright.PENANAaYOUwZOd3p
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the85Please respect copyright.PENANA5mlW8slvEQ
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply85Please respect copyright.PENANAzpxurWgOdp
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing85Please respect copyright.PENANAsQxA7bVP6S
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...85Please respect copyright.PENANAwppPuvak1s
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is85Please respect copyright.PENANA8FyHasSoTj
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”85Please respect copyright.PENANA2nSU47zjiH
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and85Please respect copyright.PENANAMDMvWZksEz
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts85Please respect copyright.PENANA9UKxMfDadT
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.85Please respect copyright.PENANAFMmKx2tm1x
Not anymore.85Please respect copyright.PENANA0Ekv0VIWJj
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty85Please respect copyright.PENANAiEl1uUn9JC
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing85Please respect copyright.PENANAdxn2D0Dx6i
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most85Please respect copyright.PENANAAXshiGI597
famous of them all.85Please respect copyright.PENANA7xkqjSzDBc
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone85Please respect copyright.PENANAI590oQr5tE
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole85Please respect copyright.PENANAPiAA4gMGc0
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,85Please respect copyright.PENANAIKoHnPeB5L
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with85Please respect copyright.PENANAFhSYp5Lxvt
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy85Please respect copyright.PENANADRVr5koffx
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.85Please respect copyright.PENANA05Qf0OgT3l
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place85Please respect copyright.PENANAIXvSYAd7tc
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.85Please respect copyright.PENANAKswf9QywW0
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is85Please respect copyright.PENANA5RaWp2kV5n
unlike so many others.85Please respect copyright.PENANAr5jAYho3Xj
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or85Please respect copyright.PENANA5d6TdgDF2C
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral85Please respect copyright.PENANAIG6AtEndd7
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in85Please respect copyright.PENANAYjnMGGlz3P
person rather than from behind safer pages.85Please respect copyright.PENANA8mMM1xkIMW
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and85Please respect copyright.PENANAgLPs17Wk6U
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that85Please respect copyright.PENANA9XtQq4gblV
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.85Please respect copyright.PENANAYvbpoLELkg
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already85Please respect copyright.PENANAIELS3IhwQy
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we85Please respect copyright.PENANAlY1cctSw4N
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made85Please respect copyright.PENANAHV80A0I3VB
the jump.”85Please respect copyright.PENANAnt8ERnRLFe
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards85Please respect copyright.PENANACZ8yv32Coa
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”85Please respect copyright.PENANAmgN2rbIEcC
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then85Please respect copyright.PENANAqA2idWB6y5
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...85Please respect copyright.PENANAQbsCRuPZyK
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”85Please respect copyright.PENANAfLhs9FuB3r
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce85Please respect copyright.PENANA05inrjf3Hy
who was expecting what followed.