
Chapter Four340Please respect copyright.PENANAdGaau4SkXd
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their340Please respect copyright.PENANAd9XwtHiDVr
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they340Please respect copyright.PENANAvTywskF5Go
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as340Please respect copyright.PENANANwrlXbosih
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,340Please respect copyright.PENANA0c6WOgxLap
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.340Please respect copyright.PENANAVqVdMhMwIw
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared340Please respect copyright.PENANAaXJP0ffMbf
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst340Please respect copyright.PENANAU65akUwK3A
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the340Please respect copyright.PENANAxKSwA6GUYJ
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply340Please respect copyright.PENANArjtbADp2xV
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing340Please respect copyright.PENANAus60UkTygk
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...340Please respect copyright.PENANAxgAvT0ucSh
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is340Please respect copyright.PENANAb4lsTSx3WF
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”340Please respect copyright.PENANAkAJHKXLt0U
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and340Please respect copyright.PENANAW3akIs1CGs
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts340Please respect copyright.PENANAytva40mBfr
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.340Please respect copyright.PENANAbWGHOCNVf2
Not anymore.340Please respect copyright.PENANADr7qtrWoWL
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty340Please respect copyright.PENANAU2ljof3BlT
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing340Please respect copyright.PENANA78KtuxeT0p
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most340Please respect copyright.PENANAmiyjE6iX40
famous of them all.340Please respect copyright.PENANAh9XOL0XApy
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone340Please respect copyright.PENANABJ6bLtbxpt
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole340Please respect copyright.PENANAInltbeaS50
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,340Please respect copyright.PENANAQJ7tD9y9fm
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with340Please respect copyright.PENANApd75zAe9Fk
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy340Please respect copyright.PENANAgJWnAjCwlf
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.340Please respect copyright.PENANAed4SCvyUsp
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place340Please respect copyright.PENANA0R3yrPlkKc
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.340Please respect copyright.PENANAUlNMQJKeno
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is340Please respect copyright.PENANALYxUiQq8do
unlike so many others.340Please respect copyright.PENANAEjZgnnQ6Bm
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or340Please respect copyright.PENANA44FvXoMTGw
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral340Please respect copyright.PENANA7yQKUtmMf8
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in340Please respect copyright.PENANADmOVJY9YMv
person rather than from behind safer pages.340Please respect copyright.PENANAfssc1fLE9o
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and340Please respect copyright.PENANAz2LOUN8jEb
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that340Please respect copyright.PENANA1CIhbvoLU5
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.340Please respect copyright.PENANA7dQ714RKXT
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already340Please respect copyright.PENANAWf8xh1QacG
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we340Please respect copyright.PENANAlMm8KOx8dH
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made340Please respect copyright.PENANAqzuHOgM6Q2
the jump.”340Please respect copyright.PENANA1sZ6K4LnzJ
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards340Please respect copyright.PENANALgoxCponsh
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”340Please respect copyright.PENANAL1T4aZZzfa
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then340Please respect copyright.PENANA4pdHuaV9ry
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...340Please respect copyright.PENANABYdwYRVsJ0
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”340Please respect copyright.PENANAMGjyap7VS4
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce340Please respect copyright.PENANAga168KPdv9
who was expecting what followed.