
Chapter Two405Please respect copyright.PENANAPMxlS6TeJg
“Landfall”
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Thunderclaps amidst all the heavy rain announce to those aboard the405Please respect copyright.PENANAg08btKeCL2
strange-looking aircraft stubbornly making its way across the sky, that they405Please respect copyright.PENANAcUiOGbwDEQ
have just entered Beriheim. It is the UX-Rg31 prototype; also known by few405Please respect copyright.PENANAHjltHKMDeh
as the ´Bolt Lander´, a most unique aircraft amongst its peers as its main purpose is to405Please respect copyright.PENANAz4aMDhIZTy
travel anywhere undetected.405Please respect copyright.PENANAFtMAHS6bAP
But not tonight though, for tonight stealth must be sacrificed for haste, and so405Please respect copyright.PENANAyEq58vOPeM
nothing will be able to hide it and its sounds of fury as it makes its way across the skies.405Please respect copyright.PENANAiSUG5ABC6C
It departed from the Human Capital not even two hours ago, and has been cutting405Please respect copyright.PENANAVAnb9fMl0f
clouds and deafening anyone caught under it since it took to the skies. It is headed405Please respect copyright.PENANAWJh2nJbcNs
towards the top of the Beriheim Mountain and the large flashes of white light now405Please respect copyright.PENANA3BLx6dZNOz
pouring through those thick glassed windows let everyone aboard know that they are405Please respect copyright.PENANAt2F03vbEKm
getting closer.405Please respect copyright.PENANAYWyjxmDrO9
An old man is confidently taking the pilot seat, his face is spent and his wrinkly405Please respect copyright.PENANA2mX1RYTYrm
hairy hands shaky, but he is still the best pilot on the continent. His eyes are not what405Please respect copyright.PENANAl1wYIq7hSc
they used to be, but Airman Sheiska has always displayed an uncanny knack for flying405Please respect copyright.PENANA0qxxPRjmvZ
as he keeps demonstrating with his almost purely intuitive manoeuvres between one405Please respect copyright.PENANAYHfLj8OPos
lighting strike and the next. It is imperative that he brings those five men as close to405Please respect copyright.PENANAkhikkzHgUM
that Mountain as possible. Four figures sitting in the dark, two on each side of that405Please respect copyright.PENANAvwJbSWzZJ8
cargo hold and with their silhouettes barely visible, except for now and again when405Please respect copyright.PENANA60BwIqj5H7
those flashes of light storming the outside manage to break in. And a fifth who refuses405Please respect copyright.PENANAxIfT8Flikj
his seat preferring instead to stand proud between them; he is holding himself to a405Please respect copyright.PENANAFJFh9WbKaV
metal bar right above his head as the entire aircraft keeps shaking. Every single time405Please respect copyright.PENANAsKiQeofq0Q
a big flash of white dumps its light through those small windows, a thunderous roar405Please respect copyright.PENANAqIWDSFiZlS
and a violent shake immediately follow. It is quickly growing worse as all six aboard405Please respect copyright.PENANARJRRyAoP4Z
can easily tell. These five are its cargo, for the Bolt Lander is transporting, as it usually405Please respect copyright.PENANAcb0EFi6Aq7
does, the very best of all the Human forces. The elite team that King Hervies deploys405Please respect copyright.PENANA4YVbKhlcZG
when he needs something taken care of quickly and surely.405Please respect copyright.PENANA6xNkGodZt9
They are the “Hervies Hand” for they always operate as a team of five and they405Please respect copyright.PENANAEGm6zfQtjt
are the most trusted and capable of all at the Human king’s disposal. They are the405Please respect copyright.PENANArk6o81DfcF
best. Five elite soldiers; capable of all sorts of tasks that their king might ask of them,405Please respect copyright.PENANAwIXfpIGXli
including most of all, combat. Time and again have they survived what no one else405Please respect copyright.PENANAAuG7v9pgT9
would and just as often have they fought and vanquished all sorts of enemies in all405Please respect copyright.PENANA9TkvJqcWs0
sorts of preposterous scenarios.405Please respect copyright.PENANAcufvisfbqD
They go in and they come out successfully, that is what they do, and they have never405Please respect copyright.PENANAznb9F70bco
failed their king, not once.405Please respect copyright.PENANAcqxNzudAhH
Everyone knows that the Hand is only called to serve during states of emergency.405Please respect copyright.PENANAft5Skl59vi
Their work is few and far between, but it is always impactful, and many times has the405Please respect copyright.PENANAAyVok7eIpb
outcome of their missions changed the course of Human history. They are preparing405Please respect copyright.PENANAMIYjxVc1wE
themselves to accomplish yet another important mission for their majesty and no405Please respect copyright.PENANAYMOYEFjrJZ
amount of rain or thunder is going to shake them. Fast has the Bolt Lander traversed405Please respect copyright.PENANAhBCCaisJx4
the lands, faster than any other aircraft can, but this is the rarest occurrence for very405Please respect copyright.PENANAl4761WMwgH
seldom is she called to serve in the first place and when she is, it is to make use of her405Please respect copyright.PENANAAxncsMTfQ5
more cunning and stealthy capabilities. She can fly in almost complete silence unlike405Please respect copyright.PENANABNH2l0nstU
most noisy and smoky propellers plaguing the lands and it is often able to drop the405Please respect copyright.PENANAUPj8hFhOkk
Hand real close to their target without any realisation of those not involved. Covert405Please respect copyright.PENANARJhVCdPtPO
infiltration it’s usually her main focus, for it is an aircraft designed to remain unaware405Please respect copyright.PENANAErJxOOfj1i
while making sure it never arrives in second place.405Please respect copyright.PENANA06tfnDNGUK
Tonight, however, the Bolt Lander’s bold nickname is to be tested, as its speed is405Please respect copyright.PENANAGSHT034tBl
its best quality.