Semper Mars
“In that moment, he felt every one of the hundred million-plus miles between himself and his daughter and wondered if he would ever see her again.He hated Mars. He hated the Marines.No… not that. He couldn’t hate the Corps, not really, even though the Corps was what had separated him from Kaitlin.Outside the cat was the blackness of the Martian night, with a dazzle of stars directly overhead but cut off on all sides by the sheer cliffs rising above the crawler. A thin, hard wind was blowing down... the chasm; the outside temperature was down to ninety-five below and dropping. His watch outside was coming up in another hour, and he could barely stand the thought of having to go stomp around in the bitterly frigid sands again, constantly moving to avoid freezing to death.Ten sols had passed since they’d left Heinlein Station… and it felt as though their journey had scarcely begun. The terrain they’d been following through the narrow chasm was impossibly rugged, a tortured badlands of sand pits and boulders, an endless succession of craters drilled rim to rim into the crumbling regolith.MoreLess
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