Chapter Four86Please respect copyright.PENANAsMsuK8EomB
“Desperate Measure”
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Despite, however, of their unique, sometimes hard, history and all of their86Please respect copyright.PENANAO5MTzVjAuJ
great accomplishments, both as individuals as well as a team, tonight they86Please respect copyright.PENANA5CdOebP1Fq
will be tested as none have ever before. Their hard-honed skills as well as86Please respect copyright.PENANAlabBO81ecR
their very bonds to one another will be put to the test. There will be no room for luck,86Please respect copyright.PENANAmxUADe54vw
or any sort of blessing, for fate’s hand cannot reach the place they are headed.86Please respect copyright.PENANAIx4QFyPMIs
First, they will reach the top of that mountain staring at them, as it has always stared86Please respect copyright.PENANAUR1LRuui7v
towards anything smaller than it, always inviting the brave and the ordered whilst86Please respect copyright.PENANAafFzJFilop
warning of the lesser. To its top they must go, and then as deep into the world as the86Please respect copyright.PENANAOv78IYkhxA
path found there will take them. They are here under the command of those deeply86Please respect copyright.PENANAs0vDnPQ7jW
afflicted by fear and greed, under the strict orders of their king, renowned for chasing86Please respect copyright.PENANAJ8uvTI7qak
magical butterflies but his five chosen do not care...86Please respect copyright.PENANApg0r4uMWUH
“Let us keep pressing on...” Dhanel Marce kept on whipping them “The clock is86Please respect copyright.PENANAqajhrlzmEd
ticking, and we are already late. Deena, you take point and Rhim you watch our back.”86Please respect copyright.PENANAf4upGtiNo0
They continued pushing, steadily and in single file, always combat-ready and86Please respect copyright.PENANAMrAwDf1aO5
prepared for come what may. They cross a ghost town but each of these town’s ghosts86Please respect copyright.PENANADiIl80tf08
doesn’t haunt any member of the Hervies Hand.86Please respect copyright.PENANAWTPgmX1Bkl
Not anymore.86Please respect copyright.PENANADLcs39K877
This is a place like few others scattered across the known world and everyone pretty86Please respect copyright.PENANAZCdIdgFoAA
much knows of these, either by the travelling word or by the printing and publishing86Please respect copyright.PENANAlqbtkOTib4
of stories and studies on the matter, with this one, the town of Brosse being the most86Please respect copyright.PENANAEw9BPlTLt9
famous of them all.86Please respect copyright.PENANAB1QaMRDYmD
Something big happened here. More sinister than most can imagine, and anyone86Please respect copyright.PENANAfjIbqKZvEk
can prove. Once vivid homes and lively markets during night or day, alas the whole86Please respect copyright.PENANABKPOg3vfrm
place is now but emptied. Where once crops stood proud, now mud and ash await,86Please respect copyright.PENANAXOBgyKJgTI
and where a strong and insightful river of sweeping blues and foaming whites with86Please respect copyright.PENANAzG5LUH2gG9
many a fish jumping high all year long used to run, there is now but a trail of red sandy86Please respect copyright.PENANAdj4QiDh1fx
mud and blackened weeds. All like dragged bloodstains, leftovers of now missing lives.86Please respect copyright.PENANAR9SDivnmcX
It is a sorrowful sight that easily demonstrates the celebration of death taking place86Please respect copyright.PENANA3f2NeROT5J
all around this place for that is all that this town is now; dead but never forgotten.86Please respect copyright.PENANASvSy0oIaQr
The five keep moving through all this, another misty ghost town but this one is86Please respect copyright.PENANApWotML7FEZ
unlike so many others.86Please respect copyright.PENANAOHfap8xpx2
There have been studies about it, quite a few concerning the ´Beriheim Incident´ or86Please respect copyright.PENANAYLrFjx1vso
´Sky Event´ and of course Brosse being one of its most famous examples of collateral86Please respect copyright.PENANAbEbJvz8tKY
damage, it cannot be left out. Still, it is quite different when one gets to see it all in86Please respect copyright.PENANAqNHt6SACUw
person rather than from behind safer pages.86Please respect copyright.PENANA3tZflNwKDo
“Most of our electronics are already on the verge of disablement,” says Deena “and86Please respect copyright.PENANApsOZHIXDOQ
who knows how long till the rest follow.” she keeps pressing all the buttons on that86Please respect copyright.PENANA7maiphXQ9r
device strapped to her left wrist trying to verify what is still at their disposal.86Please respect copyright.PENANAwnrLsEUL9n
“Aye...” Harigar Rhim adds from way back at the end of this five-man line “Already86Please respect copyright.PENANAdgAMssE9QC
on the Bolt lander we could notice some of our systems failing. It started soon as we86Please respect copyright.PENANAXLOYJ8XziH
crossed the border into this region, and it has only grown worse ever since we made86Please respect copyright.PENANA7abDHOIIt2
the jump.”86Please respect copyright.PENANAXSsm3qGAiy
“It was also affecting the Bolt Lander remember?” Dhanel Marce looks back towards86Please respect copyright.PENANAUbm1Ub8P2U
him with a smile “That is why we were forced to make the jump in the first place.”86Please respect copyright.PENANABXWQFDkjk9
A few steps of silence with Deena never taking her eyes from that gadget and then86Please respect copyright.PENANANVYgNYVwQv
Celle took her turn in voicing a certain concern or anxiety towards certain facts...86Please respect copyright.PENANAi8uXjatzQi
“Sir, aren’t we supposed to be heading to one of our very own research facilities?”86Please respect copyright.PENANAWEIP8h96S7
“That is correct Celle, and you already knew that.” short answer from Dhanel Marce86Please respect copyright.PENANAoqI4Twfcw3
who was expecting what followed.