
Chapter Four438Please respect copyright.PENANAhWVrcQd0Yz
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their438Please respect copyright.PENANA1Z7jrW7prx
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they438Please respect copyright.PENANAtmFzEKXlPq
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as438Please respect copyright.PENANAPAI5P2LIGk
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,438Please respect copyright.PENANAPwy92rs1BU
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.438Please respect copyright.PENANAPHhaRxND5c
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared438Please respect copyright.PENANAazmTMDB2RL
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst438Please respect copyright.PENANABY6wH8uyP0
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the438Please respect copyright.PENANAlVwHv2riPq
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply438Please respect copyright.PENANAzSVlG5fmuf
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing438Please respect copyright.PENANA2pXMQoYTK8
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...438Please respect copyright.PENANAWUWWIVWWdI
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is438Please respect copyright.PENANAQAYxig6Qsb
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”438Please respect copyright.PENANAp80ZGJvEE0
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and438Please respect copyright.PENANA1esHj66hCd
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts438Please respect copyright.PENANALSqXorsYbO
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.438Please respect copyright.PENANA0apoaVtfMq
Not anymore.438Please respect copyright.PENANA2cXtbmqMX3
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty438Please respect copyright.PENANAjS9wLXE1Wo
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing438Please respect copyright.PENANASl78H8Wfgs
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most438Please respect copyright.PENANAiQTnpyZjSa
famous of them all.438Please respect copyright.PENANAP6mFDz1Lyh
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone438Please respect copyright.PENANAPFI0rh4lwJ
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole438Please respect copyright.PENANAk18JIRpPdA
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,438Please respect copyright.PENANAFr0DkX1Cd5
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with438Please respect copyright.PENANAlNxyXTDJrZ
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy438Please respect copyright.PENANA8BlUPBP6vw
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.438Please respect copyright.PENANAxK7hEYpn6Z
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place438Please respect copyright.PENANAocsEfjiigo
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.438Please respect copyright.PENANAR2pjwI3RrY
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is438Please respect copyright.PENANAwxRQGCBmtL
unlike so many others.438Please respect copyright.PENANAId81sUU8YC
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or438Please respect copyright.PENANA4mEiuwEOnv
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral438Please respect copyright.PENANAjsxP9Fcl3z
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in438Please respect copyright.PENANARyBAQ3H4uN
person rather than from behind safer pages.438Please respect copyright.PENANAIji4qX3dQf
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and438Please respect copyright.PENANAw7pPOihEHI
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that438Please respect copyright.PENANAfJWFv3c5RE
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.438Please respect copyright.PENANARLvYDC1Ogp
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already438Please respect copyright.PENANAHooGMM8cot
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we438Please respect copyright.PENANANHO98fmEe3
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made438Please respect copyright.PENANANoPFnEPFmS
the jump.”438Please respect copyright.PENANAwDYdZLv38h
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards438Please respect copyright.PENANAkCIjnluKoH
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”438Please respect copyright.PENANAylbode8bOy
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then438Please respect copyright.PENANAeopQeoWdKH
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...438Please respect copyright.PENANACHRCP09xB2
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”438Please respect copyright.PENANABHYKM0RgHB
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce438Please respect copyright.PENANAxhrxFaJ4fu
who was expecting what followed.