
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.