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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.
