"You're not leaving so soon are you? You didn't get a chance to play pool or even join me for a drink." I turned and there was the big man. If I thoug...t he was big from twenty feet away standing right in front of me he was huge. "Sorry yeah. I am actually heading to a friend's cabin for the weekend." He grinned and I swear he let his eyes slowly move down me undressing every inch of me. He was nodding as he said, "That's a nice car. Don't tell anyone but I almost bought one myself. I just don't. That condition is: you need an escort. Any resident here can be your escort, if they are not involved in something else. Just ask. Why do you need an escort? Because all of our emergency procedures are dependent upon telepathic communication. We are on Mars, which can be a hostile environment without the envelope we have covering us."Her comment resulted in stunned looks. Connie said, "I can see from your expression that this is a surprise. It is true. We are currently within our habitat on. “Captain,” Ensign Munfree said. “I have received a message for you and the helm.”“Put it on the overhead,” I said.A moment later we could hear a voice boom out over the speakers. “Unknown ship. You are instructed to hold position until the satellite challenge is completed. If it sends you a green signal you can then turn sixty-five degrees to port and to approach at no more than thirty-five percent power.”“Ensign, do we have a green signal?” I asked.“It just came through,” Ensign Munfree. The warmth that his large fireplace produced drove out the chill of the encroaching autumn weather and unless he ventured near a window - something he rarely did while in the midst of writing - he rarely had a clue as to what the sky might be dropping upon his little cabin. He looked to the right towards the door. There was a young woman there, he guessed around eighteen or nineteen years of age. She had a small backpack strapped to her back along with a sleeping bag roll - both looking the.