<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 was angry, far more than he should be. Alice indeed was some stubborn bitch. He had a choice? Oh yes, he had, he had the choice to accept the system as it was or to change the system. He decided to change the system. First in a regular way and when it proved to be futile, he changed it in some illegal way. But he changed it. He made people survive, he made people not becoming nut shells or victims like her brother. He had committed crimes to save people. And that meant that he was a bad guy? Did she never break a rule? For the best of the bigger picture? Damn, how could anybody be so ignorant and stubborn? Like with that not taking drugs.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"You will take drugs, Alice. Because if you refuse to take them, it either means that you accept defeat that you couldn't reach your own goals and I learned how grimly you try to prove yourself, so I doubt that you will ever accept defeat. Or it would force me to knock you out, carry you from work and tie you to your bed, to prevent you from taking irreparable damage. Something I would do, as I won't watch you harming yourself. But it would destroy any kind of understanding and liking we have build up for each other. But those are the only two alternatives, Alice. Nobody can do that work without drugs. Absolutely nobody. Not some miner, not me, not Bull and not at all some rookie with the most stubborn mindset there is in the Universum. Think about it, Alice. I show you the examples, what it means not to take drugs. You don't want to see those, I promise you. They shatter your view of life. And if you still tell me after you have seen all the facts, that I had a choice, then you are either an ignorant fool or some basket case. Then..."</span><br/><br/>But he didn't finish that sentence. There was no help in telling her that he would give up hope then. That he would accept that he could never convince her to understand the truth and his intentions, his soul. He would shut her out then, would wait for the six weeks to pass and they would never meet again then in future. There would be no base for anything that required trust and understanding.</div>