
Chapter Six427Please respect copyright.PENANAGxThZttrOc
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,427Please respect copyright.PENANAx4KqQcnZLB
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each427Please respect copyright.PENANAdeSXBdfNX1
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among427Please respect copyright.PENANA3mIPQGDZIh
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took427Please respect copyright.PENANAi1tt07kYsb
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their427Please respect copyright.PENANAQ3JiegbyPK
chance regardless, if so willing...427Please respect copyright.PENANAART1YuR8wa
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks427Please respect copyright.PENANA6XGwNpQ8I8
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems427Please respect copyright.PENANAE6KViiXkOn
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we427Please respect copyright.PENANAuCcYblp6aI
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,427Please respect copyright.PENANAyqt3089W8f
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top427Please respect copyright.PENANAdoyXABbN7u
will easily use them up.”427Please respect copyright.PENANALdpgPpYdON
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time427Please respect copyright.PENANAiI4GTN0ZWz
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”427Please respect copyright.PENANAbssmo0Lzlc
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up427Please respect copyright.PENANANZsFoYU5uV
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take427Please respect copyright.PENANAoHY656z1uv
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train427Please respect copyright.PENANAvLzf00LUlH
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,427Please respect copyright.PENANAhTDpLPbLg4
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”427Please respect copyright.PENANAEwX2gB1fBj
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream427Please respect copyright.PENANANHKutobPdM
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so427Please respect copyright.PENANAieknaQeiEx
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old427Please respect copyright.PENANAY540dL77ta
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics427Please respect copyright.PENANAhXx87ojoDb
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but427Please respect copyright.PENANAMuOlXUXLA2
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good427Please respect copyright.PENANAAfAfb64AxY
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”427Please respect copyright.PENANAkmSOadWA4N
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any427Please respect copyright.PENANA3lQUrHBgWj
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its427Please respect copyright.PENANAShBGTRn4bt
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on427Please respect copyright.PENANA9L2WiyGGC4
metal wheels alone.”427Please respect copyright.PENANAXwvx347L7S
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,427Please respect copyright.PENANAiLOSrzeGFY
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with427Please respect copyright.PENANAWNGNxDuLJe
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.427Please respect copyright.PENANA2z1rWIlZC3
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but427Please respect copyright.PENANAde4rs06UZw
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast427Please respect copyright.PENANAzLMFWivoKG
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more427Please respect copyright.PENANAvn54xM3eQG
than twenty minutes at best.”427Please respect copyright.PENANAs8HttB998K
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”427Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1Am39UwhN
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her427Please respect copyright.PENANADlRVgR2vfP
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse427Please respect copyright.PENANA2dMwaplY6T
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop427Please respect copyright.PENANAsgg9ZUPqg3
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored427Please respect copyright.PENANAjjaqoVhm2I
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will427Please respect copyright.PENANAa3a08joA4X
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;427Please respect copyright.PENANAPUN5wMJd7h
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of427Please respect copyright.PENANAPFmqytRBx2
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely427Please respect copyright.PENANAjn284DrzJ4
be placed in a better perspective.”427Please respect copyright.PENANA4hPg5rzx3J
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”427Please respect copyright.PENANAlXLA1Iu73P
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”