
Chapter Four396Please respect copyright.PENANAyI8VlEQNnA
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their396Please respect copyright.PENANAjQ6wWOGjH1
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they396Please respect copyright.PENANA88O43y5KvS
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as396Please respect copyright.PENANA81MYGspxNz
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,396Please respect copyright.PENANAk5BGXM9XDq
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.396Please respect copyright.PENANADJippIBonM
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared396Please respect copyright.PENANAkfUr0Y25Os
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst396Please respect copyright.PENANAtCd1feCSMw
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the396Please respect copyright.PENANA16rsrHM9gF
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply396Please respect copyright.PENANA98SrrToe9b
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing396Please respect copyright.PENANAsZtWxczdNM
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...396Please respect copyright.PENANAuxr1E4hWfz
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is396Please respect copyright.PENANAEawboohqyl
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”396Please respect copyright.PENANAEVEa7qiPMs
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and396Please respect copyright.PENANA3obESpy7Yp
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts396Please respect copyright.PENANA8nXOmSGWPn
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.396Please respect copyright.PENANAKt5Lpw8WHz
Not anymore.396Please respect copyright.PENANAvKSQvOGlpL
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty396Please respect copyright.PENANAQEAzPrRIBT
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing396Please respect copyright.PENANASRFP10f8fl
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most396Please respect copyright.PENANASavMwKPWeT
famous of them all.396Please respect copyright.PENANAMBskkdL70w
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone396Please respect copyright.PENANAl4RgTOfZci
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole396Please respect copyright.PENANAlLk6HAXZ1Z
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,396Please respect copyright.PENANA1E4s4No6N9
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with396Please respect copyright.PENANA3tgVuvuBVP
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy396Please respect copyright.PENANAmkzwN2cSw7
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.396Please respect copyright.PENANAaCtOXN5cqH
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place396Please respect copyright.PENANAfQC2AnoCpR
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.396Please respect copyright.PENANABdFQdnCUng
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is396Please respect copyright.PENANAwNZzm9SiGA
unlike so many others.396Please respect copyright.PENANAghQA9jCrvG
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or396Please respect copyright.PENANABtKuBsJRgr
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral396Please respect copyright.PENANAavSWtbAFdt
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in396Please respect copyright.PENANAODuX4UGQDJ
person rather than from behind safer pages.396Please respect copyright.PENANA2zb8qarx4n
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and396Please respect copyright.PENANAOp5EZ26dpO
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that396Please respect copyright.PENANARAfXR0KmJn
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.396Please respect copyright.PENANAbZUxm1OeGh
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already396Please respect copyright.PENANA9Aa5wNk7JH
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we396Please respect copyright.PENANAnWDZJ451gZ
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made396Please respect copyright.PENANACT30RhewK3
the jump.”396Please respect copyright.PENANA1gkYGgqItU
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards396Please respect copyright.PENANAVuC8zzNI4X
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”396Please respect copyright.PENANAAPIRvlafSe
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then396Please respect copyright.PENANAw4n55qqzVj
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...396Please respect copyright.PENANAeAPBHb7TYI
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”396Please respect copyright.PENANA8bPPyx9Q97
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce396Please respect copyright.PENANA7iRqZFlp6H
who was expecting what followed.