Chapter Five86Please respect copyright.PENANASTFJ5s0KTq
“Briefing”
Every one of us here has a privileged position, as we all know; we are fortunate86Please respect copyright.PENANAl7ZlKJjroW
to serve our nation and our ruler to unparalleled levels, we are chosen and86Please respect copyright.PENANA1gjwsiAsTd
with our actions, we display the very best our kingdom has to offer. We are86Please respect copyright.PENANAo74D0j1Kb1
its strength and its cunning. We undertake what very few can even consider, and we86Please respect copyright.PENANAG3Vuiorqg3
always succeed.86Please respect copyright.PENANA2BZEMU6nAo
That is what we do, who we are.86Please respect copyright.PENANAdAInVfLpc7
We are both the first arrow and the rumoured dagger. We are fortunate for we are86Please respect copyright.PENANASJao7RG3Ct
thus allowed to see and know more than most ever will, but we are still far from seeing86Please respect copyright.PENANA1LDF0Clce5
and knowing everything, of hearing all the secrets. We are not told of certain things86Please respect copyright.PENANANJnnrYgav6
unless urgency for our services demands it and so sometimes, most the times, all the86Please respect copyright.PENANAd0nh8LhuEk
privileged information is shared with us forcibly.Usually and unfortunately at the very86Please respect copyright.PENANATjf97z2Jdq
last hour and always at the most basic level required for our success, and anything86Please respect copyright.PENANAjgh3fKKsxB
else that I come to learn must be importuned, but such a thing has never hindered us.86Please respect copyright.PENANAT91bQwl1mU
Duty calls to us, our king bestows upon us the knowledge he deems necessary for us86Please respect copyright.PENANAUBXcfO80v0
to succeed, and we always do.86Please respect copyright.PENANApl1GKHHZHP
Tonight will be no different. We will succeed regardless of how little we know.86Please respect copyright.PENANAtIMTZX6eZt
Always remember that is who we are. Now that’s out of the way...86Please respect copyright.PENANAu2fIqphSfX
I will now say something I do not usually need to tell you...86Please respect copyright.PENANAndwdW3Jf35
I want everyone here to be extremely careful tonight and to never, under any86Please respect copyright.PENANAMAS1qrsYT6
circumstance, underestimate the situation around you or even worse to overestimate86Please respect copyright.PENANAuZ36qjbGjI
yourselves. I have always been reminded that all things should be taken in moderation,86Please respect copyright.PENANAoVzpNViJJL
even experience, for too much of it can also harm. These are always important words86Please respect copyright.PENANA4wVtrqTN79
I think, but it is not my intent to bother your ears with them...86Please respect copyright.PENANAzab1MaxfnQ
I will just leave you with this: I want every single one of you, tonight, to remember86Please respect copyright.PENANAqfIFNIFcFX
at all times why we succeed...86Please respect copyright.PENANAURfYu8Waoc
I ask you all to promise me and yourselves this. Indulge me, please.86Please respect copyright.PENANAFayJ78oLZT
Tonight, will be a vastly different mission from any we had previously been charged86Please respect copyright.PENANAkexJN1G8xG
with, in both time and geography.86Please respect copyright.PENANAgOqAYm5uVy
We are headed to a place like no other and never before has so little time been given86Please respect copyright.PENANAUQv3mT6AfD
to us to accomplish a mission. Never had I heard such urgency in his majesty’s voice.86Please respect copyright.PENANArUCZRVP9dJ
I was instructed to warn you that this is the most important mission the Hand has86Please respect copyright.PENANAxIo08ojcsE
ever been charged with - these are words from King Hervies himself as he stared me86Please respect copyright.PENANAhq2gtwRGEl
in the eyes.86Please respect copyright.PENANAMbaaekSSup
Be always mindful of this.86Please respect copyright.PENANAEfwcAzqmcK
So, as I am sure you are aware by now, we are heading up there, towards the top of86Please respect copyright.PENANAPzJoFg6hMD
that mountain, into the facility established since the incident that killed this place.86Please respect copyright.PENANAM6srieIv9M
I was told that we are not to expect any encountered resistance hence we bring only86Please respect copyright.PENANAzXxmUPHROW
our basic weaponry, I was also warned that this mission is not one of search and rescue86Please respect copyright.PENANAlDcjQyMgaF
no matter how dire the situation presented to us.86Please respect copyright.PENANAtxvqfxwxPA
We are not to go out of our way to rescue someone if such a scenario, however86Please respect copyright.PENANAFm4lA7SR6e
unlikely, is presented to us. We are to move in fully prepared and expecting the worst86Please respect copyright.PENANAKwf1NQ921w
possible situation as we always do, for they never call us in otherwise. All we know as of86Please respect copyright.PENANAqoJa7NtEfP
now is that all forms of communication between the palace and all those stationed up86Please respect copyright.PENANAZZuPREL6v0
there were lost after six years of assiduity, cut off deliberately but not by our majesty’s86Please respect copyright.PENANAWP7grH04gV
command.86Please respect copyright.PENANAZS5jH5xTgP
Those people stationed there come up with something, a discovery of great86Please respect copyright.PENANA9jIiKI6YLr
importance, unprecedented. Whether it was one of the many research teams that86Please respect copyright.PENANAgs93eNf8h1
achieved it, or it was unburied by the digging team, this I do not know. I was not told86Please respect copyright.PENANAjyLRWHHK0y
about this.