Chapter Four106Please respect copyright.PENANA14UaJaQPMC
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their106Please respect copyright.PENANAALVLCZ2TG7
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they106Please respect copyright.PENANAOQLH1AHAmy
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as106Please respect copyright.PENANASKEV9FO8vG
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,106Please respect copyright.PENANAMfNYvplRU3
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.106Please respect copyright.PENANAJnK9pKFlII
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared106Please respect copyright.PENANAOPmGx1y10n
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst106Please respect copyright.PENANAhZuYYXHmZt
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the106Please respect copyright.PENANAWEmu3OhVAz
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply106Please respect copyright.PENANAw2SguH563N
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing106Please respect copyright.PENANA1Os9ZTG69H
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...106Please respect copyright.PENANABc7dStr3vk
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is106Please respect copyright.PENANAYz9eLCpXBJ
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAMla4CcwzWY
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and106Please respect copyright.PENANAqjpRUgOFCN
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts106Please respect copyright.PENANApodAUyYL8Z
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.106Please respect copyright.PENANAbOc05srMPQ
Not anymore.106Please respect copyright.PENANAkOefpirZBo
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty106Please respect copyright.PENANAas1peFliZ3
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing106Please respect copyright.PENANACXfdNzxESQ
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most106Please respect copyright.PENANAK4DvXrOyw0
famous of them all.106Please respect copyright.PENANAtcPNF8efSE
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone106Please respect copyright.PENANAJ9uY9Um1Z3
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole106Please respect copyright.PENANAT2Z1XKaXgB
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,106Please respect copyright.PENANAh8iVUN3TEi
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with106Please respect copyright.PENANAY5P1VXFkbM
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy106Please respect copyright.PENANAgUaSJRUxGh
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.106Please respect copyright.PENANA7YDaJJGx4k
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place106Please respect copyright.PENANAigO9rqbcTN
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.106Please respect copyright.PENANAG1kTmaMad7
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is106Please respect copyright.PENANAWpCwf5SMNe
unlike so many others.106Please respect copyright.PENANAcQLz8TtdoA
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or106Please respect copyright.PENANAsNNHvFZ7kh
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral106Please respect copyright.PENANA5JBfjHRB6X
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in106Please respect copyright.PENANAxLhDjNngsT
person rather than from behind safer pages.106Please respect copyright.PENANAwdcOdJFnAY
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and106Please respect copyright.PENANAVs6Or4xEru
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that106Please respect copyright.PENANAZCbAAHyhC8
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.106Please respect copyright.PENANAb8f5UQtjrF
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already106Please respect copyright.PENANAVxCw519hzQ
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we106Please respect copyright.PENANABsJ5LKCxoT
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made106Please respect copyright.PENANApi7ITKoWGJ
the jump.”106Please respect copyright.PENANA25Hoik1wnA
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards106Please respect copyright.PENANA6V2C0I123l
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAfLxOll8fiL
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then106Please respect copyright.PENANAExpILU2H8T
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...106Please respect copyright.PENANARvwX9v0aAJ
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”106Please respect copyright.PENANASmmdAQKYDh
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce106Please respect copyright.PENANACxcZEPUuzK
who was expecting what followed.