
Chapter Six362Please respect copyright.PENANAToaXRf6jBv
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,362Please respect copyright.PENANAWVf1Ta5wfb
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each362Please respect copyright.PENANAYgLGO4tdBU
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among362Please respect copyright.PENANAIEJf140DBE
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took362Please respect copyright.PENANASdE69khfVZ
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their362Please respect copyright.PENANA3IXTBtibBa
chance regardless, if so willing...362Please respect copyright.PENANAP19HTy1aQa
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks362Please respect copyright.PENANAPIeEkh4Yxv
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems362Please respect copyright.PENANAa48sVmhK8Z
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we362Please respect copyright.PENANAX8pLVBvcUB
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,362Please respect copyright.PENANANU2pwwSBU1
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top362Please respect copyright.PENANAYzE7nmBGxo
will easily use them up.”362Please respect copyright.PENANAg6kFcDU6qX
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time362Please respect copyright.PENANAMHHhxV9y7e
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”362Please respect copyright.PENANA25IEVOTBTI
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up362Please respect copyright.PENANAHbqVJc60pq
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take362Please respect copyright.PENANASx6m6ebv3Y
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train362Please respect copyright.PENANAul2DVl5fWP
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,362Please respect copyright.PENANAQEwT1yydWv
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”362Please respect copyright.PENANAiNT1JmxDTr
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream362Please respect copyright.PENANA2cMRf4wjYG
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so362Please respect copyright.PENANAwK5L31nBxz
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old362Please respect copyright.PENANAcsKGBa6vYe
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics362Please respect copyright.PENANAbXwtlKf0Yy
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but362Please respect copyright.PENANAXal6fG0v2g
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good362Please respect copyright.PENANAPZW3xCQaS4
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”362Please respect copyright.PENANAvZUv43bcOS
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any362Please respect copyright.PENANA7Kcqcha8J7
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its362Please respect copyright.PENANANH5b0Dlbmx
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on362Please respect copyright.PENANAM78Ndcl8Ng
metal wheels alone.”362Please respect copyright.PENANA9UIITtvHvY
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,362Please respect copyright.PENANArDECpoQwY2
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with362Please respect copyright.PENANAmoGrgCblvQ
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.362Please respect copyright.PENANA7yJOJVfl2d
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but362Please respect copyright.PENANAvkxhPR34qE
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast362Please respect copyright.PENANAjVYVhPnhS4
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more362Please respect copyright.PENANAcnCvBt6rCQ
than twenty minutes at best.”362Please respect copyright.PENANAFdyLPqWQBO
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”362Please respect copyright.PENANAUUX0mWkOJr
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her362Please respect copyright.PENANAfuhMz09cJC
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse362Please respect copyright.PENANAIS70N8REFF
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop362Please respect copyright.PENANA5ZzAXT28rm
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored362Please respect copyright.PENANAMNf9jDJicg
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will362Please respect copyright.PENANAXhWcPimuKl
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;362Please respect copyright.PENANAX2APlMtBjR
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of362Please respect copyright.PENANAGMFhZOAHak
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely362Please respect copyright.PENANATMxPf5fmeJ
be placed in a better perspective.”362Please respect copyright.PENANAoP9IObHdNi
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”362Please respect copyright.PENANAVhf2qXOYvD
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”