“I’ve still got two hours left. Let me just get my things.” She left his side to go retrieve her coat, and her purse where she had left her micro re-breather. Once they were both ready, she followed him into the airlock and out onto the heated patio.<br/><br/>Outside, she looked over the Martian landscape. Her voice sounded slightly different through the re-breather when she spoke. “I never thought I’d miss Mars, but there’s a stark beauty here that I’ll regret never seeing again. On the other hand, our new home will have so much more in common with Earth before the Burn. Can you imagine seeing a truly untamed wilderness, with tangled forests, endless oceans, and windswept plains? Pristine like the world of prehistoric man. I’m so glad I only have to wait a week for it—those poor guys who run the cryogenics will have to take years of shifts maintaining the systems.<br/><br/>“I’ll be jealous of whoever is first outside the ship, and takes that first step on a world outside our solar system.”