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Chapter Four431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftxBhNHpsN
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrbpYK9VWF
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm0MoovVGCk
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrbkqySQKW
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnOYZN5oidL
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2D9PmtytwL
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUzeb373Rg
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFOZ9DuynJ5
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELyGws1emi
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAb1ujMTMq1
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqH4mpzhwP4
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpWZrqg9VL
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Xle2hkuZU
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGxI80ZJxf
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡab73qvfcbD
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQdcGgVS9u
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZ0K9XAKPI
Not anymore.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3OPkulJit
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIZ2NgXNO3
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQthTTs1z0
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDyfzket2j
famous of them all.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOPxU9vBvTE
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklFrW1SC3F
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49sTeGo0Xc
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyVdQMGpV2
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzOKTKXVSIf
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2OLSqe1yMY
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeSAUV0YHO
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwV0m53grdh
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyCyglS300
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5eVbzKzOK
unlike so many others.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjjarCsOVp
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyinc2CWDd
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiAdCoTib8J
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCqQZYK6JHo
person rather than from behind safer pages.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJAsIj2u63f
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcWRPFcQFUf
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUwGVU8F44
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhU6KyD7HF
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclaKPhXWD8
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpwQhNxfyZ
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycCYtEBTks
the jump.”431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbhIBz8gb2
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtbdGTw8w1
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOD1GXqFX38
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYPdEfYJ5Ln
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6x0dIBxms
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwhPpm6Omol
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce431Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEfM2mMBNU
who was expecting what followed.
