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“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Uf8BHLhFT
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrV4Kbgb2I
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeOMGgx4cY
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdOhrRezdQ
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsC17nIoga3
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmJpbo0Ywz
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDCfnOnKJU
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzVyOtCAOy
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGLeXCwhzS
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHu3Xq5oDN1
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGuSWwOo9tW
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKDHabZrzp
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbgoO1N7Rd
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwhveKBlvSn
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBKYRgatJo
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPDS4X4t6q
Not anymore.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgN6wrDAIvk
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqglT8XqHDQ
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SMujqbgCu
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIK6Vo2dvG0
famous of them all.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJnyr76tUP
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4TtOCU2HA
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0F27nWwkR
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsxehz4Djy
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9c8P3dNUcq
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YR1R4c7HI
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tSgn20gSW
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpFLEaENkA
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLsF58omou
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFX6E6Tsl7
unlike so many others.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSPEuXYbPw
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1lhFLdRaXa
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmLHwuwEqA
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wbH0AboPv
person rather than from behind safer pages.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxL3XrbyOz
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XXgu5Mr4p
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5UA3iEt6x
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0R7d1mPEp
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOiGU44Co4D
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS054JMJYGz
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrSPdg7kF1F
the jump.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymUX6wwGAP
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Wzon0kBbj
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0erlWTOCk
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3whJlEm2L
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81uJdx3dz1
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcKGWkBlP8
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQ6JSWDna1
who was expecting what followed.
