<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #80BFFF"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Peter Halvardson</span><br/><span style="font-size: 120%; line-height: 116%;">'The Viking'</span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Peter sat up and looked at her a little puzzled. He wasn't sure what she was asking him right now.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Down where? 60 and 61? If you really want to do this, then you are way crazier than I believed you may be. To answer your question first, 10 if you go without me, 1 if you go with me. You need to operate a manipulator and it is best if I sit next to you then. The question is, where do you think you are more helpful, Ally? Down there, where we have some hundred miners who are doing that work every day and who aren't so burdened with their memories like you. Or up here, where every helping hand that is not totally unskilled may save a life? I have no problem in facing my demons down there again, Ally. But there are others who aren't handicapped like I am right now. I better leave that work to them and I help Serge and the guys at the hospital. There will be a lot to do. Don't worry, there will be already enough to do with those folks who aren't on 60 and 61. Not everyone might have been totally lucky, some might have been crushed inside their manipulators and we will have more than some dozen of injured. You think there won't be guys like Bull on the other soles too? We had engineers on other soles too. I would say you can help far more with me in the hospital than down on the soles."</span><br/><br/>He put his large hand on her cheek and cupped it in his palm. He knew that Alice was going through a lot of mind-shattering experiences right now.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Ally, I know that you can't believe all I say yet. And that all those years as an MP are still deeply rooted in your mind. I don't say I am an innocent angel, but I am not the bad, dark guy either. Nothing I have done hadn't some reasons and most of it turned out like I planned it, but by far not all of it. I gave your the shock tour in the last 24 hours, confronting you with those things that shook you most. But I am not shy to fill in the blanks, more and more the more I get the feeling that I can trust you fully. I want you to understand me, because only if you understand me and if you approve of my actions, you will not think of me as some bad guy somewhere in the back of your mind. And I don't want you later to look at our kids and to wonder if they would be little criminals like me..."</span></div>