<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 listened to Alice's words and it was a good offer. A pretty good offer. Far more than he had expected and hoped for. And it would still leave him all options to carry out his plan, his escape plan if need be. He knew that he should have accepted it immediately, but the little boy in him wanted to toy with Alice.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"No, no deal. The conditions are all wrong, I can't accept that..."</span><br/><br/>He let his words linger for a few seconds before he continued with a chuckle.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"...I see no way that you can keep your part of the deal and so I can't accept it. How can you say, you drop the "Hands off" rule, starting now, when there is a mountain between us and I can't rip those clothes of your body right now? So, until I can actually put my hands on you, this deal is off. But then I will accept it."</span><br/><br/>He really wondered why she had given him the six weeks. The next shuttle would arrive in a fortnight, she could have placed him on this one. The only explanation he had was that she hoped he might indeed turn her around. Did she love him? Did she feel the same for him like he felt for her? Could it be that this tough cookie was falling for him too? He forgot for one moment that Thomas was with him and that Bull had opened his eyes too and he blurted out the question.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Why are you doing that, Alice? It may get you in deep trouble..."</span></div>