Chapter Four84Please respect copyright.PENANA3QaPljwtr9
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their84Please respect copyright.PENANArqXkXb7uRH
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they84Please respect copyright.PENANAdkNXZ4Atom
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as84Please respect copyright.PENANAbDjEFfj4us
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,84Please respect copyright.PENANAOndo6HmJvJ
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.84Please respect copyright.PENANA2MwnhR81am
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared84Please respect copyright.PENANADX2Zy4dVRl
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst84Please respect copyright.PENANABuiUJfoxeG
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the84Please respect copyright.PENANA5kynOw1JmA
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply84Please respect copyright.PENANAw7UYxv8mkA
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing84Please respect copyright.PENANACZfoWchJ5U
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...84Please respect copyright.PENANA6ZIvVrNQA6
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is84Please respect copyright.PENANAh2QdloTG3I
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”84Please respect copyright.PENANAcAS8oSt08Q
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and84Please respect copyright.PENANAFZDIUHEiSE
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts84Please respect copyright.PENANASLhlvEHyD8
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.84Please respect copyright.PENANAaDXRPOCd5C
Not anymore.84Please respect copyright.PENANA3G9Za8iaZ5
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty84Please respect copyright.PENANA9sXZ0qHdJs
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing84Please respect copyright.PENANAV6nxzp5sq7
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most84Please respect copyright.PENANAMvyqXS6dhf
famous of them all.84Please respect copyright.PENANAEIu8i4gYCR
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone84Please respect copyright.PENANApRtlyC628r
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole84Please respect copyright.PENANABDfY3WULcW
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,84Please respect copyright.PENANAQB7wIWVslU
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with84Please respect copyright.PENANATrBFik6I3w
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy84Please respect copyright.PENANAF1Het1DjFF
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.84Please respect copyright.PENANAzlRLfmeXfG
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place84Please respect copyright.PENANAL0qAnrxl1c
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.84Please respect copyright.PENANAbIXP9DPrHf
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is84Please respect copyright.PENANAbehlMP2g70
unlike so many others.84Please respect copyright.PENANA8C0iuyMglw
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or84Please respect copyright.PENANAqLHLcWhjOF
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral84Please respect copyright.PENANAQ6iSLj7dEZ
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in84Please respect copyright.PENANARJhQCE0eZ1
person rather than from behind safer pages.84Please respect copyright.PENANAEzHuNuTiYE
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and84Please respect copyright.PENANAPCzH9H8fxJ
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that84Please respect copyright.PENANAMqHjLUtnNT
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.84Please respect copyright.PENANAssyYyM0SnO
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already84Please respect copyright.PENANAGte2BojtWJ
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we84Please respect copyright.PENANAj8fKcZGWFj
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made84Please respect copyright.PENANABTCg2Om6eP
the jump.”84Please respect copyright.PENANASu3tQOoNN0
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards84Please respect copyright.PENANA0il2GEMsvZ
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”84Please respect copyright.PENANANIHmuNLGT2
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then84Please respect copyright.PENANAmlamW5f4Wu
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...84Please respect copyright.PENANA5p5ZWiurxS
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”84Please respect copyright.PENANA5NGmbPSadP
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce84Please respect copyright.PENANA5CuK0v5hsu
who was expecting what followed.