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were no holes or
places light could escape he turned on his light and quickly
checked his oxygen supply, and spare tanks, and realized he could
escape in the morning, before it was light, and realized the person
would eventually return to the shuttles, if he never found him, as
he saw the person never had extra oxygen tanks.
    He rested and started going over everything
and what had happened and he wondered if something else was
occurring that he never knew of, and why they had been so
determined to get the diamonds as there was no real proof of the
diamonds existing, anyway, and he had seen the diary Eagle had,
which had belonged to the scientist, and the diary had virtually
nothing in it as far as he was concerned, and he recalled Eagle
mentioning that that the location was hidden away on the map and he
realized that Orwell had to have told him, and convinced him there
was definitely something there, but Orwell never knew of the map,
and he had not told anyone, and he had been sure Eagle thought he
had it, and he recalled that someone did know he had it, and it was
Rosenberg, as he had seen him take it out of Anders’s
spacesuit!
     

Chapter 19
     
    The Light in the
Night
     
    Cronenberg’s
dreams were strange and as though he was floating through mist,
which shifted about beneath him, and he never recognized anything,
and he was too tired to awaken, and he observed it all with
amusement, and an annoying whispering sound that he kept listening
to, from some unseen place, which sounded artificial when he firmly
listened.
    The events of
the past days haunted him and he kept wondering where things were
going, and it was incredible as he had not done anything like it in
years, and even then it was nothing like it!
    Lights twinkled
through thick areas of mist on the horizon. A bright light suddenly
appeared, deep in the vapor. It oscillated and intensified.
    He tried
imagining the astronaut who had chased him as he tried to realize
something that he could not grasp about him and he was surprised
that he appeared and how authentic he was, and he studied the
perfect copy in detail, with the strange light there glowing over
him.
    He resembled
someone! He could not grasp! He realized no face features had been
visible, and the person was somehow different, and he nearly
grasped it when a strange loud gurgle came from somewhere. He
sensed the presence of something mysterious somewhere nearby, or
existing about him, and he felt danger existed and he swiftly
opened his eyes and was surprised to see a light in the cavity, and
he rapidly searched the tunnel where he had come in and saw there
was nothing there, and turned to where he had been facing while
dreaming and adjusted his blurred eyes, and sat upright staring at
it trying to see what it was, and realized it was there and was not
projected there, and he wondered if it was some form of volcanic
disturbance, and a crack into some form of volcano, where there was
molten rock, and realized it was Mars and things were different and
that molten rock might not explode out, as the lava flow was
nothing like on the Earth
    It was not
there before he went to sleep, as he would have seen a crack there,
and the crack was too new looking, and he realized that it must
have appeared about when he started dreaming, and he tried to work
out why and he decided that him being there, and his weight and
frantic rush into the cavity might have altered the weakened rock
and allowed it to break, and he realized that if it got worse it
could breakthrough.
    A deep thud
appeared within the rock and he heard a familiar sound and realized
it was the annoying whispering sound in his dream that he kept
listening to, from some unseen place, which had sounded artificial,
and he listened to it with his ear against the rock and he heard it
was a powerful vibration from something, and when he firmly
listened he was sure something was breaking through, and he checked
his watch and wondered if the astronaut with the