
Chapter Four370Please respect copyright.PENANA8MZld0gRTj
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their370Please respect copyright.PENANA3RkI0cjBSj
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they370Please respect copyright.PENANAeDT63yXBcI
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as370Please respect copyright.PENANA5o56A9R8m2
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,370Please respect copyright.PENANA62xre1fEBU
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.370Please respect copyright.PENANAPh1jJNf9YB
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared370Please respect copyright.PENANAXMN1z1FJcP
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst370Please respect copyright.PENANAW3bcW20rIY
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the370Please respect copyright.PENANAMwKIC3tLuy
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply370Please respect copyright.PENANAdCirsGZaHp
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing370Please respect copyright.PENANA1UFgAKyYaf
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...370Please respect copyright.PENANAQf6Gp38mti
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is370Please respect copyright.PENANA274Bl1D1oj
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”370Please respect copyright.PENANAtykEYlLbKg
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and370Please respect copyright.PENANAXIg7rpyqum
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts370Please respect copyright.PENANAmsRwsISsiS
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.370Please respect copyright.PENANAgzMb9q5O0Q
Not anymore.370Please respect copyright.PENANA8lejdfMxI6
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty370Please respect copyright.PENANAaC4J9lEm1n
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing370Please respect copyright.PENANAEngA29lIqD
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most370Please respect copyright.PENANAFV7hFeQNBr
famous of them all.370Please respect copyright.PENANAczWyHFbY8L
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone370Please respect copyright.PENANAe3adNpAs1h
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole370Please respect copyright.PENANA45fbRkf9AJ
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,370Please respect copyright.PENANAqSZHEEBWVh
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with370Please respect copyright.PENANApoe3S0oRMn
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy370Please respect copyright.PENANA5dTdwpeLlh
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.370Please respect copyright.PENANAns5e8YeJxW
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place370Please respect copyright.PENANAfhQOFvmpTs
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.370Please respect copyright.PENANAqdU7rXa59t
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is370Please respect copyright.PENANA8QOgDQ9EKo
unlike so many others.370Please respect copyright.PENANAOIvNuyXemm
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or370Please respect copyright.PENANA9BWnHFgF9T
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral370Please respect copyright.PENANA9bJ8onL2eU
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in370Please respect copyright.PENANABTUqqGXeY2
person rather than from behind safer pages.370Please respect copyright.PENANAG9ktwQjplZ
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and370Please respect copyright.PENANAWaWmJhA8yp
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that370Please respect copyright.PENANAGvO3OGebzE
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.370Please respect copyright.PENANAizBsouWMXM
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already370Please respect copyright.PENANA5xOGC7Zva2
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we370Please respect copyright.PENANA0nMp8aXeHB
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made370Please respect copyright.PENANAlkuS1Fg85c
the jump.”370Please respect copyright.PENANA28emcFl1Mn
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards370Please respect copyright.PENANAirEXHzbq3n
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”370Please respect copyright.PENANAxppq23jToh
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then370Please respect copyright.PENANAsO9TQYpdKR
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...370Please respect copyright.PENANAfhDWHzElk9
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”370Please respect copyright.PENANAk7OW8k8vBC
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce370Please respect copyright.PENANArG8pdwhQkI
who was expecting what followed.