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Chapter Four306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbSWi2XFw40
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs8HqVZG0Zd
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7RTZNGYNL
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZRilxHWQ5
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVyPsqRyhs
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2zPzHM8l3
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83NOAccdNg
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwALHYj33L8
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8nuNsNvMV
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNfxjj8F1G
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCS67H6nzHF
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ175k1CJpN8
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWPXznnQQO
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANv9WHdpzJ
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe4lqaY7bbj
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWaaRNHYHiE
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZMs4vDb67
Not anymore.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8M4r1pIPS
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlCxOC9krC
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg2fOi3K7NE
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqs3l5jyDh8
famous of them all.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVmCW5bhpA
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlNxD2RyOy
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgbibeWlseE
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh60FOb1QkD
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITGk672uc8
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCdg0Ml12P
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUzPkvxFZQ3
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtV4HSEIQ6e
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjxjvmjxIV
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwF40xrg2DO
unlike so many others.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgmy8msXBT
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJ4UgAX3Ly
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGwRNB9utP
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWWkUEIM0w
person rather than from behind safer pages.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9aRrPBE2f
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZz3e02qMJ
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBslzIktv5s
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHEzqep0DV
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7ttlqJELb
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv8f6CxcHyd
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthosGu8Sw5
the jump.”306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHUazlRrbD
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGdeJZweh8
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmGOqlwKsl
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdMLW45XSy
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHAlboP1j4
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssrDat3xiX
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWW74KCZtgH
who was expecting what followed.
