
Chapter Six386Please respect copyright.PENANA2SRvDflDyK
“Sixth Finger”
They listened carefully for every step of the way until Dhanel Marce concluded,386Please respect copyright.PENANAeqy3cp3o7M
as he always does, with the already familiar question. They stared at each386Please respect copyright.PENANAK2SrRwHdbQ
other for the next couple of steps, silently as if trying to decide who among386Please respect copyright.PENANACoksvARC5s
them should go first, but eventually Harigar Rhim would decide for them. He took386Please respect copyright.PENANANbgkmMnrX6
the opportunity before any mutual agreement came to be, but they all would have their386Please respect copyright.PENANABVLF8mQoDl
chance regardless, if so willing...386Please respect copyright.PENANARdzk09PqlI
“So, I’ll start with the more obvious question and not just to me, I hope” he smirks386Please respect copyright.PENANA8V5sO0uNh5
while looking around his companions “but the time to complete this mission seems386Please respect copyright.PENANAIJ3R18boMS
awfully scarce considering how far away from reaching the top of that mountain we386Please respect copyright.PENANAmgd76eXzpu
still are. I don’t care how small that facility might be, it is still way up there and well,386Please respect copyright.PENANAy4XLbMWSZG
we are still down here. A few hours?! The time alone required for us to get to that top386Please respect copyright.PENANAI0lqQQ1lEZ
will easily use them up.”386Please respect copyright.PENANAtsOWP4DGx1
“That is true but what are you exactly asking me? If I am sure of the amount of time386Please respect copyright.PENANAE4wpsk3Xjx
made available to us, or you just expect something like that to be overlooked?”386Please respect copyright.PENANAHl5te68m0Y
“You jest boss, but you know exactly what I am asking. How are we to make it up386Please respect copyright.PENANAADdULpDjXq
there?” Dhanel Marce smiles: “Yes of course. Well, there is a transport waiting to take386Please respect copyright.PENANA6Hd2NfGZwS
us all the way to the top, right after we cross those soggy woods up ahead. A small train386Please respect copyright.PENANAPYutToEQhB
station rests amongst the stubborn cliffs overlooking the violent sea, and once there,386Please respect copyright.PENANA4a5BtAbKev
we will take the train that transports any and all cargo towards that facility.”386Please respect copyright.PENANAjMK0K2Offu
“Excuse me... a train?” asked Deena. “Indeed, a train that will take us up the stream386Please respect copyright.PENANAj5kKUWbOeq
if you will. There is nothing electric about it when it comes to how it is powered so386Please respect copyright.PENANAbhmwTWGjoU
the EMP shouldn’t have any influence on it. Its engine is much like the trains of old386Please respect copyright.PENANANcqBXMIWfg
running on steam so its motion should not be hindered. We will lack the electrics386Please respect copyright.PENANAPiK99oxVTd
aboard but that tells little to us; no lights inside the cart and no voice to greet us, but386Please respect copyright.PENANAwQMilveKws
that is about it. What matters is that it will take us up there and will do so at a good386Please respect copyright.PENANAChp9bFacWh
speed. Just picture it as a train that runs vertically instead of horizontally.”386Please respect copyright.PENANAHaeiURmR8h
“It cannot be just that...” Harigar Rhim stares at that mountain “Without any386Please respect copyright.PENANAkZn5CSPTJm
assistance of electrics how is it capable of moving alongside that mountain? I mean its386Please respect copyright.PENANAe3jS2TPuX5
tracks must stand almost vertical at times and there is no way it can run on them on386Please respect copyright.PENANAB9nZIwwGfZ
metal wheels alone.”386Please respect copyright.PENANA4EEQ0Ae4VQ
“You will all see.” their captain continues “I have travelled in one of these before,386Please respect copyright.PENANAbFz1bFWEyJ
long ago, and I do use the term loosely. Both of us, myself and the one I was with386Please respect copyright.PENANAFDM2lEqLqc
at that time, well we weren’t actually inside the train when we caught a ride on it.386Please respect copyright.PENANAq9YtqwlnyX
Hanging desperately to it is more like it. Anyway, it is nothing new by any means, but386Please respect copyright.PENANAze56uGO9fx
just something seldom utilized for how often does one find the need to travel both fast386Please respect copyright.PENANAgu84If7HBf
and vertically, in a way that an elevator won’t cut it. The ride should not take us more386Please respect copyright.PENANAs7cbVQzHxq
than twenty minutes at best.”386Please respect copyright.PENANAc2ymShLaVA
“So, this transport will deliver us inside the facility?”386Please respect copyright.PENANAdgOt25uZ6P
“I am afraid not Celle, as per these schematics” Dhanel Marce shows them to her386Please respect copyright.PENANAy5Vgr9asOn
“it will instead drop us off in the second building, more explicitly inside the warehouse386Please respect copyright.PENANAyjwkYyTObZ
where loaders and other similar machinery take shelter. There are three buildings atop386Please respect copyright.PENANAcLqXbBrCWR
that mountain: the facility, but also the warehouse where all sorts of things are stored386Please respect copyright.PENANAUVRXqG0Liq
within, and of course loaded into the train or relieved from it. That is where we will386Please respect copyright.PENANAFskDCDKj6n
step out. Lastly, the smallest of the three and built slightly apart from the other two;386Please respect copyright.PENANAyJGrNwrDLm
where all the main electric settings are, such as generators, conductors, that sort of386Please respect copyright.PENANAzSaY7N3y9V
thing. The train will drop us off and after that, once we step outside, things will surely386Please respect copyright.PENANAJBaTvFyL8d
be placed in a better perspective.”386Please respect copyright.PENANALsTYE894X1
“Sir if I may... unofficially... I mean off the record; do you have any idea about...”386Please respect copyright.PENANAXAHNbIvT5a
“Deena, wait!” Celle extends her right arm making her stop “Someone else is here...”