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Chapter Four359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡms2MkhjBRR
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuogcr5lWJ
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYbXwX7860
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8UJjnTM5bs
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVJiQTrWUY
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFRTHxrC6x
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxggkRAPos
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6un3Tfp79
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarAIOGENu6
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOmgnLzbNq
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQ5NUjuIb4
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeymCFw2h7d
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mzh0iW4kf
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NtX9Up7C9
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpg1OzDsr9
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4G9Me7unm
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ139f3WZ7wp
Not anymore.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgBOREcxsy
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBECvhjMdd
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWgSzLf14U
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPMnJ0jmGf
famous of them all.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTPspTEshX
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gLGvmimOT
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbY4qumFlSm
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16c8XuoVEZ
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTYgj6ZqcV
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURcMj2n4Vu
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMjNfWL3b1
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNk6uLOaLl
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZcB5soGg0r
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡygeXmYt8Z0
unlike so many others.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ftFxRwbIa
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiMGPVuUYe
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ488ECE3i7O
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmoYfbky58O
person rather than from behind safer pages.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktk9ArJYEo
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLIFLvQUkwA
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNcDVepsnUM
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qLn8xsbPL
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVqHojPPTd
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWCeaiBRuC
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOjd1mr4dd
the jump.”359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Kel1EbPhn
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFtiEM1WNx
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZRxHkIxjrW
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuuCOwGqLZR
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOjETbw5rIq
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnqMtLFEcNT
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWQX6bU31G
who was expecting what followed.
