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Chapter Four304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVE7qWPuIpC
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSO7vQdmsy
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAJh3xibTz
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8a86wT39Pv
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZfmah8nhBA
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOa9I7vr7mR
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiTtK5wpkS
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSKH2ltxd6W
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVP0nyUF59
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYmYR9TFhz
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAW7rAND3U
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvV7N6c919
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqGlSGxMVr
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM23QdBcmtc
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcOYrnb0v2
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgRixnD2gF
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjB0G55Csx
Not anymore.304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwYKOVj2FI
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemK0XzojTQ
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpa2RGeZA1J
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2m1Fp9qU7B
famous of them all.304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwew2LqYYBB
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5APVEJGKJg
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD2AGVvHEqa
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0KLJY4PqYp
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuV44yWKBU9
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWu2FmNw6b
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiYrhuaCOS
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvKExURurI
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwO6Ol2ZYZX
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTe7OUCZEZF
unlike so many others.304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBb5jRycNK
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOO8Q7UY00
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3AEqCXGGS
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjNeKMfhzZ
person rather than from behind safer pages.304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rdAeBN9ar
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbowc11vaX
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzagT16Tfj
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡesXIcQrIKy
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfUnutj36W
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJDbabMNpP
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMp0ufbyCN
the jump.”304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2EAn7rZzw
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTck9kKOa6i
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCTMwKqn9j
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy5UsYTGs64
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjh0aSMiEtp
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmxTwtTu1H
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce304Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQi4Ta39z9
who was expecting what followed.
