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Chapter Four437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIwjRXg3SG
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38D28wBsoC
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFXUyzF7nb
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDrh3lwAuAl
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVrYww6iom
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjWEWn5324
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCpyfBLATJj
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtCOZKW47o
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTf3YnQh6a6
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bZGxX8mmY
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxjFPpaqtb
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIhCm0WGfN
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLRfIFQ5mB
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4Aw11mMWX
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZAHX02fbSL
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIeqpZfoP5
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYi9ggTuNzl
Not anymore.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjODmlIG0Rg
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTatB0lgJ8t
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjVny2U3l7
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xmiYVVzzd
famous of them all.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLZphE2JFM
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqY52FV3Ebn
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82sa3FsNvX
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQF0xZC8Ted
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyl994KnCf
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqmcT80ezS
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQScx8XnDOQ
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4W2phugTRY
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDcWQcvQ8Zw
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzp6BGgnyP
unlike so many others.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWzhOu8Pxm
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9GlRUKfLG
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBRmhBiu9A
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dk2RQWybz
person rather than from behind safer pages.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3cMj12SWY
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykFUZETFfy
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPrZURdqYn
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnLg2OuvIg
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6v82zdRrT
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUUbmWvf1n
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KSjVBOh2P
the jump.”437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkE2gPeiF4d
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4Kh1NtgYw
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGNTT7DH1y
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82kqZ4FrWC
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJVse6RHh8
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVQWIiLE7M
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce437Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGTQSBoKiYR
who was expecting what followed.
