
Chapter Six426Please respect copyright.PENANAAG7tUAas6n
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,426Please respect copyright.PENANA8DEhK4tmoG
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each426Please respect copyright.PENANAfb1GXf1gNI
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among426Please respect copyright.PENANAYsaR5ZTyLn
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took426Please respect copyright.PENANAtZdeyOHhmF
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their426Please respect copyright.PENANA6eLhT1dyVO
chance regardless, if so willing...426Please respect copyright.PENANAk64dY99zur
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks426Please respect copyright.PENANAc4BKmlgXZd
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems426Please respect copyright.PENANAlCBMHFDqg6
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we426Please respect copyright.PENANAslXgFW2OOh
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,426Please respect copyright.PENANAA1xhAIFY7S
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top426Please respect copyright.PENANABqHKONiXUi
will easily use them up.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAnrv3BakgOg
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time426Please respect copyright.PENANAd2imLqwTlm
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”426Please respect copyright.PENANA9hvGKD18Bj
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up426Please respect copyright.PENANAESZx0RNqK3
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take426Please respect copyright.PENANAePwHgNdxaG
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train426Please respect copyright.PENANAGq1xQqabt1
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,426Please respect copyright.PENANAlfSgZUuk27
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAShuV3lDkD8
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream426Please respect copyright.PENANA9ap55xfpOe
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so426Please respect copyright.PENANAqA7g4QEAbL
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old426Please respect copyright.PENANA0L0ShLcoYZ
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics426Please respect copyright.PENANAoolitN3jZd
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but426Please respect copyright.PENANAys8OqBchQe
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good426Please respect copyright.PENANA2ZsOFuoL1W
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAKCUh0cgueg
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any426Please respect copyright.PENANA50ZeeByiTk
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its426Please respect copyright.PENANAjeKNIOcNlK
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on426Please respect copyright.PENANAGzlblhsYfU
metal wheels alone.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAoiFcaDMxvB
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,426Please respect copyright.PENANABxn8z8gyAW
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with426Please respect copyright.PENANAbPRxuGnfhv
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.426Please respect copyright.PENANA7XCvD9gtfb
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but426Please respect copyright.PENANA31VnoxmZ3I
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast426Please respect copyright.PENANAXyn6ODo8gY
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more426Please respect copyright.PENANAZfzeFMdCs6
than twenty minutes at best.”426Please respect copyright.PENANA1JVKbBa5ul
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”426Please respect copyright.PENANA29L7MKAI0Q
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her426Please respect copyright.PENANAAL5zw5rZaQ
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse426Please respect copyright.PENANAZ8SfUpZKdo
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop426Please respect copyright.PENANAvJUUteWPkE
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored426Please respect copyright.PENANAHrhGvZ8ON8
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will426Please respect copyright.PENANA9psYjK0bWh
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;426Please respect copyright.PENANAHTzHvhM6Im
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of426Please respect copyright.PENANAKRJRVVwsSr
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely426Please respect copyright.PENANAMzYgF6bcQH
be placed in a better perspective.”426Please respect copyright.PENANAmwGuyjXV3D
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”426Please respect copyright.PENANA5ZYjw7Llop
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”