
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.