
Chapter Four432Please respect copyright.PENANAkUnENE6UP1
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their432Please respect copyright.PENANAj3lxXRNfsX
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they432Please respect copyright.PENANAdl25M5NpHp
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as432Please respect copyright.PENANAqJI8vBocVe
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,432Please respect copyright.PENANA0ZhWeAM66Q
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.432Please respect copyright.PENANAw8CP1890Wr
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared432Please respect copyright.PENANAXjWi1eoDEG
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst432Please respect copyright.PENANAJwkoZTF31M
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the432Please respect copyright.PENANAF0jT3WgXgD
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply432Please respect copyright.PENANAAO2rQnppHI
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing432Please respect copyright.PENANAoTQFw5R4bi
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...432Please respect copyright.PENANATriQbnVcWR
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is432Please respect copyright.PENANA360d7CzDRI
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”432Please respect copyright.PENANA96NoergneE
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and432Please respect copyright.PENANAAFLV2GUATX
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts432Please respect copyright.PENANADqwtp8CsYJ
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.432Please respect copyright.PENANA9a6k685Lcb
Not anymore.432Please respect copyright.PENANA5DeWhyuUgy
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty432Please respect copyright.PENANAb5a9nZ107z
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing432Please respect copyright.PENANA6QjJk93kBr
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most432Please respect copyright.PENANAuPU1uR7Iiv
famous of them all.432Please respect copyright.PENANAL2HX1IcYrh
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone432Please respect copyright.PENANAXiqx6ifG2W
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole432Please respect copyright.PENANAjanohMQSem
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,432Please respect copyright.PENANAGHorqePycy
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with432Please respect copyright.PENANAtWpI380tzD
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy432Please respect copyright.PENANAac8XWMy736
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.432Please respect copyright.PENANATFvb9ZSfz4
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place432Please respect copyright.PENANAmnMrjI1bBT
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.432Please respect copyright.PENANAYj8bD0Hnew
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is432Please respect copyright.PENANALzy3SmPVPJ
unlike so many others.432Please respect copyright.PENANAFDWsKtW1Cp
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or432Please respect copyright.PENANAyffVt83Oqm
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral432Please respect copyright.PENANAJlRNAD73yi
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in432Please respect copyright.PENANAIuYCQL4Ujq
person rather than from behind safer pages.432Please respect copyright.PENANAx8lx24J6LQ
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and432Please respect copyright.PENANAQ2CUcSDJyb
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that432Please respect copyright.PENANATwTKVM9B2I
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.432Please respect copyright.PENANAojLkWaqohc
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already432Please respect copyright.PENANAl27cOD33EV
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we432Please respect copyright.PENANANl6M59YaBY
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made432Please respect copyright.PENANA3DisA0OEng
the jump.”432Please respect copyright.PENANADFHAvpuHN9
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards432Please respect copyright.PENANAo98edXSaOK
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”432Please respect copyright.PENANAVVEqyDuexh
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then432Please respect copyright.PENANAZ8r81rnri8
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...432Please respect copyright.PENANAVVcE2yAshV
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”432Please respect copyright.PENANAeFTfpvEq5O
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce432Please respect copyright.PENANAIwOulCHKg5
who was expecting what followed.