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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.
