<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 looked at her while they rushed through the tunnel. It was the silence that was so nerving, only their pants and their steps sounded back from that tunnel. <br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Next roadblock, what do you say we remove just enough rocks for me to slip in and see what's ahead, and then we'll go from there? I think it would be faster. I can squeeze through a much smaller hole than you can, so I don't know. Maybe it works."</span><br/><br/>He pondered on it for a few seconds, but then he shook his head. It sounded better in theory than it looked in praxis.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"No. First it wouldn't help us. If Bull is dead the minutes we lose don't change anything. If he is alive, it doesn't help when you arrive there first, as I still have to remove all the blocks to get him out. He is even bigger than I am. But most of all, we would violate an iron rule. Never split up in a dangerous situation. If one of us gets injured or stuck, the other one wouldn't notice."</span><br/><br/>And then after looking at Alice, he added another sentence.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"I have another reason for not doing it. I would go crazy worrying about you, Alice. It would make me work faster, less careful to get quicker to you and it would increase the danger that those rocks come down on me. I need you at my side to calm me down."</span> <br/><br/>They managed nearly a mile before the first rocks appeared on the floor. But even though they had to climb over several small piles of rock, there was no blockage up to the save room. Peter called emergency control and told them that they reached the safe room without a blockage and that there was no sign of Bull so far. Then he took a stretcher out of a corner and they continued down the tunnel. 200 yards later Peter stopped Alice, pointing at the ceiling. There was a rift and Peter took a larger rock from the floor and threw it against the ceiling. The noise was deafening when the ceiling collapsed on a length of thirty yards, covering the floor with several feet of rocks and rubble.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"See, that are those reasons why I would go crazy knowing you somewhere in there alone."</span><br/><br/>They climbed over the field of rocks, but then Peter sighed loudly as the beams of his lamps showed a completely filled tunnel. That would take hours to find a way through that. If Bull was under those rocks, he was as flat as a pancake.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"BULL! ARE YOU THERE?"</span><br/><br/>They both tried to hold her breath, while they listened into the tunnel. And then barely audible a weak voice came back to them.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"What the hell took you guys so long?"</span><br/><br/>Peter immediately grabbed the first rock and rolled it aside, while he continued shouting.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Status?"</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"I'm half buried under some rocks. I guess I broke my leg as it feels weird, but I can feel my feet and I can wiggle my toes, so my spine should be ok. Other than that I could kill some people at UE now..."</span></div>