<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 glad that Alice wasn't pissed off by his volunteering them for help without discussing it with her prior. He still had to adapt to having a partner now and to now being able to make decisions all by himself. Nevertheless I had seemed the only proper decision to him and he had hoped that he had judged Alice right that she would agree.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Thanks for that offer. We can surely need help here once the turmoil starts. Even on the other soles there may be enough injured people, so we will have to take care of a lot of them. Soles 60 and 61 are still without communication and we have no idea what to expect there. EC told me that they plan to send the first workers down with manipulators in one hour if no further aftershock will happen in the meantime. But realistically they will need one or two days to get through that blockade. Then we will know if we get a lot of work or if we will be too late..."</span><br/><br/>Peter hoped that they won't only find bodies there, but if the entire sole collapsed then nobody would have gotten out of the manipulators and it would be big luck if they found someone alive after that time. There was not a lot they could do until that time, but to get some rest... <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Ok, call for us once the first injured arrive up here. We will take some rest..."</span> He winked at Serge and a loop-sided grin was on his face.<span style="color: #FF8000"> "...in the meantime and you take care of Bull. We need him back on his feet when his two girls will hang at his neck."</span><br/><br/>Serge nodded and he looked at the door of the surgery room, where his co-worker had prepared everything for the surgery by now.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Don't worry. It looks worse than it is, we get him back to normal. He will have to lie down for a while and then some rehab, but I am pretty sure that he won't have any ramifications later from this. Just some more scars to show his girls. He is some lucky bastard this Bull. Knocking up a girl on the first night and then having her wait for fifteen years on him. You should ask him how he had done that. It may spare you some trouble with your lady..."</span><br/><br/>Serge winked back at Peter and then entered the surgery room, leaving Peter and Alice alone standing there.</div>