<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;">It was just a short aftershock that made the floors shake, not even a strong one, but it was enough to move one critical stone in the first blockage and the gap they had managed so difficultly to create was closed again. Peter and Thomas looked in utter disbelief at the restored barrier. They were both too exhausted to open it again.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"That can't be true. This damn planet hates us, it is obvious. Ok, now we can just wait if Alice returns with help. With a little luck those guys of 64 had cleared the air shaft already and will climb down to her. If not, well I need a break. I can't roll more rocks away with those ribs..."</span><br/><br/>Peter was totally down and he could see that Thomas wasn't any better. They both sat down on the flower and tried to relax a little. If Alice wouldn't find help, they would have to remove all those blocks. Better to rest as long as they could.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Are you sure that it is a good idea to let her get so close to you?"<br/></span><br/>It was a good question. Peter had no idea if he was just making the biggest mistake of his life or the only right thing to do. He liked Alice, despite all her stubborness and somehow he knew that if she would be on his side, that she would be that kind of girl he had always wanted to know. The problem was, that he wasn't sure at all that she would ever change sides...</div>