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Chapter Four439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzVogJVVnC
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmeggyz2Yx
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp8aCxnTlSn
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMdaH6Di6Z
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNBAU79GBx
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC5sn8WGO9R
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzjbPAnPSrd
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl7NGMXPzr6
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82HuNgBZ9K
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuN2uwDCqmH
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQl4tGVb3r
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgC8XtzBwXs
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDimJz6uMf
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroWLMfmC2e
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9waNsVF9NA
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfFv53yY7X
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNvfHxsxuy
Not anymore.439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJg3ps6JnZr
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUcyaGdSF4
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6IjHlPj3I
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGTRjv4iR0n
famous of them all.439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZgVGrcOIx
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFU8CRTxRPt
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zxablx2F1
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcphqpG77bp
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0QQsP07cr
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvmscUIvcc
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBHC9EeaV2l
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hx7h4O94L
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKDRAaUhfkR
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVPTc3OEWE
unlike so many others.439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ893hgXZL2a
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADYuaVJOiV
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Q1l795a9F
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLOnco24sK
person rather than from behind safer pages.439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡao180mlBUL
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ812tpSdErZ
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JopPmUTJK
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERijMMzMYH
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrLNzrXnyk
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4HZJHAhGR
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpafrXJuSSG
the jump.”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhwqDOcwGo
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7Wd6rgr61
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWJnVxH9AH
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbSPfkS2sQK
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3Fgbdz77y
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8OAJSlmKIU
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce439Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrieo92eIP
who was expecting what followed.
