Chapter Two649Please respect copyright.PENANA9RDgctg3fL
“Landfall”
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Thunderclaps amidst all the heavy rain announce to those aboard the649Please respect copyright.PENANASYMAxDzSaa
strange-looking aircraft stubbornly making its way across the sky, that they649Please respect copyright.PENANA0JJ5JvQIBc
have just entered Beriheim. It is the UX-Rg31 prototype; also known by few649Please respect copyright.PENANA0rhrQbN1bd
as the ´Bolt Lander´, a most unique aircraft amongst its peers as its main purpose is to649Please respect copyright.PENANAkZ7ZtDrB24
travel anywhere undetected.649Please respect copyright.PENANAKuRJuXUpiC
But not tonight though, for tonight stealth must be sacrificed for haste, and so649Please respect copyright.PENANAU1VvWkNQyK
nothing will be able to hide it and its sounds of fury as it makes its way across the skies.649Please respect copyright.PENANAWvl5QyaF6V
It departed from the Human Capital not even two hours ago, and has been cutting649Please respect copyright.PENANAjIVjNML6gh
clouds and deafening anyone caught under it since it took to the skies. It is headed649Please respect copyright.PENANA9p4cebSAa9
towards the top of the Beriheim Mountain and the large flashes of white light now649Please respect copyright.PENANADWaNcpK9Qb
pouring through those thick glassed windows let everyone aboard know that they are649Please respect copyright.PENANALLEp4UT3i9
getting closer.649Please respect copyright.PENANAZ0oCuXZVvt
An old man is confidently taking the pilot seat, his face is spent and his wrinkly649Please respect copyright.PENANAv3p2JMqKg4
hairy hands shaky, but he is still the best pilot on the continent. His eyes are not what649Please respect copyright.PENANAkarKgQdzDG
they used to be, but Airman Sheiska has always displayed an uncanny knack for flying649Please respect copyright.PENANAWgsqnBKU9g
as he keeps demonstrating with his almost purely intuitive manoeuvres between one649Please respect copyright.PENANA2qi7L3Pah2
lighting strike and the next. It is imperative that he brings those five men as close to649Please respect copyright.PENANARq1TFu4t4O
that Mountain as possible. Four figures sitting in the dark, two on each side of that649Please respect copyright.PENANArgwas7XoZE
cargo hold and with their silhouettes barely visible, except for now and again when649Please respect copyright.PENANAZPcMh1t72d
those flashes of light storming the outside manage to break in. And a fifth who refuses649Please respect copyright.PENANAsRS17M1mBf
his seat preferring instead to stand proud between them; he is holding himself to a649Please respect copyright.PENANAD2ctJG2BGb
metal bar right above his head as the entire aircraft keeps shaking. Every single time649Please respect copyright.PENANA7rYIMtoDae
a big flash of white dumps its light through those small windows, a thunderous roar649Please respect copyright.PENANAJU4kql3LSg
and a violent shake immediately follow. It is quickly growing worse as all six aboard649Please respect copyright.PENANAJjanoGzCsA
can easily tell. These five are its cargo, for the Bolt Lander is transporting, as it usually649Please respect copyright.PENANA1SEBx4pew5
does, the very best of all the Human forces. The elite team that King Hervies deploys649Please respect copyright.PENANAptmsYiSmRU
when he needs something taken care of quickly and surely.649Please respect copyright.PENANA5JigYlpOlT
They are the “Hervies Hand” for they always operate as a team of five and they649Please respect copyright.PENANAc3QYkqjRCi
are the most trusted and capable of all at the Human king’s disposal. They are the649Please respect copyright.PENANAL5kjSu8ZHi
best. Five elite soldiers; capable of all sorts of tasks that their king might ask of them,649Please respect copyright.PENANAg8ebelvbyv
including most of all, combat. Time and again have they survived what no one else649Please respect copyright.PENANAe4KNWzHP2Y
would and just as often have they fought and vanquished all sorts of enemies in all649Please respect copyright.PENANAyh6YXpC4lW
sorts of preposterous scenarios.649Please respect copyright.PENANAId26F1Arqd
They go in and they come out successfully, that is what they do, and they have never649Please respect copyright.PENANAfDeQplORxJ
failed their king, not once.649Please respect copyright.PENANAvcrqaqeu4W
Everyone knows that the Hand is only called to serve during states of emergency.649Please respect copyright.PENANAGCZDBN4mFq
Their work is few and far between, but it is always impactful, and many times has the649Please respect copyright.PENANAcRckhCjzgj
outcome of their missions changed the course of Human history. They are preparing649Please respect copyright.PENANA8XAjj8Uawn
themselves to accomplish yet another important mission for their majesty and no649Please respect copyright.PENANAXLDcbLwVwl
amount of rain or thunder is going to shake them. Fast has the Bolt Lander traversed649Please respect copyright.PENANAOM4FoYVWCP
the lands, faster than any other aircraft can, but this is the rarest occurrence for very649Please respect copyright.PENANAMKHJTIhQDk
seldom is she called to serve in the first place and when she is, it is to make use of her649Please respect copyright.PENANANg8Bp5s6tr
more cunning and stealthy capabilities. She can fly in almost complete silence unlike649Please respect copyright.PENANAV2kqgd8wXa
most noisy and smoky propellers plaguing the lands and it is often able to drop the649Please respect copyright.PENANAGWuuxgECMT
Hand real close to their target without any realisation of those not involved. Covert649Please respect copyright.PENANAj1LP166SJV
infiltration it’s usually her main focus, for it is an aircraft designed to remain unaware649Please respect copyright.PENANAec2ZF1fGjM
while making sure it never arrives in second place.649Please respect copyright.PENANAhIPdMWHZnm
Tonight, however, the Bolt Lander’s bold nickname is to be tested, as its speed is649Please respect copyright.PENANAe3n8ACYzjD
its best quality.


