<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;"><span style="color: #80FF00">"Can you say it louder? I don't think the folks on the sole above heard you"</span><br/><br/>Peter nodded enthusiastically and took a deep breath.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"When we are back, I will f..ghmprftpfhrsl"</span><br/><br/>He grinned when she placed her hand over his mouth stopping his loud shouting, but at the same time he was amused that she blushed. She didn't look like a prude to him.<br/><br/>They started walking again and soon began to climb up to sole 63, more hands came to help now and Peter was glad that nobody on those soles had gone missing. Digging out bodies was always the hardest part.<br/><span style="color: #80FF00"><br/>"There aren't many guys like you around, Peter Halvardson. We should start studying the possibility of cloning you."</span><br/><br/>He cocked his eyebrow and poked her in the side. Some days ago he had been the worst enemy and now she wanted to clone him? He couldn't help but mock her again.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Looks like they don't have enough to do at MP. Or why would anyone want to clone the worst criminal mind there is? You need some practice target to teach young female police officers how to get a bad guy down without falling for him?"</span><br/><br/>They had reached sole 63, where 80 miners were gathered waiting for them to arrive. Their foreman called up to EC to send the lift down. It rumbled into sole 63 five minutes later. A collective sigh escaped the mouths of the miners, but you could feel that at the same time an awareness came over them. The lift was a deathtrap in case of a strong aftershock. They stopped the lift on soles 62 and 61 to have at look at the disaster. Indeed the entire tunnel was filled with rocks the size of small buildings. Some of the men sighed loudly, until one of them spoke up.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"We get them out, guys. We don't leave one of us behind."</span><br/><br/>They closed the door and the lift started to move again. The numbers were continually counting down, until they reached 32 and the lift stopped so suddenly that they all believed in a blockage, but then a loud bang came from the outside and in the same instant all men cowered down. The shaking of the floor started immediately. Peter had pulled Alice down with him, wrapping his arms around her.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Aftershock. They made an emergency stop and pushed the hydraulic clamps out...."</span><br/><br/>The rest of his voices were drowned out by rubble falling on top of the lift. The shaking stopped seconds after it started and again all men sighed loudly.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"A small one...by god I though that's it...shit, I pissed my pants...me too....oh damn....I don't need that shit."</span><br/><br/>The men were all talking and Peter held a slightly shivering Alice to his chest and he promised that with his company unstable planets would never be mined.</div>