<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;">He held her as close as he could when she talked about ending like her brother. Peter guessed that her brother's fate had been a strong reason for her to start hunting black market dealers. But now that she got a taste of the other side, she may understand sooner or later why he wanted to change the situation by what he was doing illegally.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Nobody wants to end like that. I just promised to myself, that if I start my own mining company I will never mine a instable planet. The risks can never be worth the profit."</span><br/><br/>The lift finally moved again and when the doors on the top floor opened, the miners streamed out as quick as if there was a raging bush fire on their soles. Peter followed the four guys carrying Bull and Thomas to the hospital department. He let the guys enter and then he held back Alice and placed his hands on her shoulder. His face was very serious.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"What you will see now and the people you meet, you should have never seen at all. I will be now completely in your hands, but I still hope that you are so intelligent to see why I did what I have done. You will now enter a place that shouldn't exist on this planet...and officially it doesn't exist. Neither do those guys. Officially they died over the past years by drug abuse, but some false ids can work wonder."</span><br/><br/>He pushed open the door with the name hospital written on it. They passed through empty floors and Peter saw how Alice looked curiously and frowning in empty rooms with outdated equipment. He opened a door for her and the look at the old surgery room with its 20 year old medical equipment made her shiver.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"That's the official part. Looks like UE can't afford some up to date hospital with all the money they make out of us."</span><br/><br/>He closed the door again and walked on to a door that was labeled storage room. He pushed it open and they both blinked in the sudden rush of light of strong lamps. A sister in indeed some real scrubs came rushing for them and wanted to tend to them, but Peter lifted his hand and stopped her.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Later, Maria. I need to talk to Serge."</span><br/><br/>She pointed to another room and Peter and Alice entered a surgery preparation room, where Bull was just rolled into the latest state of the art diagnostic device. The mid-thirty doc looking on the screen had nothing to do with a drug abusing doctor Peter had mentioned on Alice first tour. Instead he made some very competent and worried impression.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"A Vik, did you need to hit him unconscious like that? He probably has a dislocated jawbone. But first we have to tend to his leg. We will have to pin it to make sure that it heals properly. He won't work till the end of his stint anymore. Who's the girl with you? Isn't that....?"</span><br/><br/>He frowned at Alice, but then he offered her his hand obviously believing that if the Viking brought her in here, he could trust her too.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Serge D'Avencourt, I am the chief surgeon here. Inofficially of course, officially I am a miner. We should use the time while I run the diagnostics on Bull to tend to your leg. Phil, can you take care of that, please?"</span><br/><br/>Another doc came out of the next room and he took Alice's arm and led her to the next chair, unwrapping the bandage as soon as she had taken place.</div>