Chapter Four111Please respect copyright.PENANA4Y4l5vZuGj
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their111Please respect copyright.PENANA4Ud1mAbDrV
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they111Please respect copyright.PENANA5UI0KUl02N
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as111Please respect copyright.PENANAJLlU9rCJYA
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,111Please respect copyright.PENANArNkznqfi6W
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.111Please respect copyright.PENANAJ4tlV4F6EH
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared111Please respect copyright.PENANAZU6G6ZMzlL
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst111Please respect copyright.PENANAI8KLlh855G
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the111Please respect copyright.PENANAh3QstkA3ab
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply111Please respect copyright.PENANA66bIevWEH7
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing111Please respect copyright.PENANALdm94StWyZ
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...111Please respect copyright.PENANAnbSivs7ftE
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is111Please respect copyright.PENANAPh0VJbNO3D
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”111Please respect copyright.PENANABCtJWzPkK4
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and111Please respect copyright.PENANAOlP3tjlMYo
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts111Please respect copyright.PENANAHAnPyM7sFq
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.111Please respect copyright.PENANA3iTh89cyj4
Not anymore.111Please respect copyright.PENANAEEUL3P2zFo
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty111Please respect copyright.PENANAA842957LMi
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing111Please respect copyright.PENANAFdTxnGfrZW
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most111Please respect copyright.PENANAUQZ65dO1WE
famous of them all.111Please respect copyright.PENANA6VGM3jnWO5
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone111Please respect copyright.PENANAqAl5ja2e9X
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole111Please respect copyright.PENANA2YsfTnPEtB
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,111Please respect copyright.PENANA9NwtPRXfWj
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with111Please respect copyright.PENANA7BYG6D1UDa
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy111Please respect copyright.PENANA4M8YV2tfUQ
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.111Please respect copyright.PENANAiqarFsEtDO
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place111Please respect copyright.PENANAMLyoUCtcaA
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.111Please respect copyright.PENANA2kOni3bmmr
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is111Please respect copyright.PENANAlCNbGdlhsn
unlike so many others.111Please respect copyright.PENANAzTdq99msTN
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or111Please respect copyright.PENANAbihXrbbGgp
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral111Please respect copyright.PENANA2KbDcQdEaq
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in111Please respect copyright.PENANACKaV2sf3nP
person rather than from behind safer pages.111Please respect copyright.PENANANor5xGjgBs
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and111Please respect copyright.PENANADVlPSzCJCV
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that111Please respect copyright.PENANAw1G5Wy9upg
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.111Please respect copyright.PENANA64GanpkFQy
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already111Please respect copyright.PENANA5ftLSXGNDT
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we111Please respect copyright.PENANAhlbVnzz1Fi
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made111Please respect copyright.PENANAMec4MUhCrx
the jump.”111Please respect copyright.PENANAvDxuz1LfOB
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards111Please respect copyright.PENANAaACUEBYPqA
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”111Please respect copyright.PENANAx46gU3Mpa5
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then111Please respect copyright.PENANAZrbSF2UmUN
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...111Please respect copyright.PENANAoSmlfOMQcN
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”111Please respect copyright.PENANAt2T82bWAO2
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce111Please respect copyright.PENANAAcIM9WuUHG
who was expecting what followed.