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direction a few
times!
    Once he realized that nothing was happening
he started to enjoy the rest and being free from being attacked,
and he considered how to get back to the others, and if it was
actually safe there. His mind raced through what had occurred! Yet
he only realized that the location that he strolled into had to
have something, and he started to wonder what was there.
    Who would go to such lengths to kill him?
What could possibly be there? What could be there in such a
desolate place? Was there another space vehicle there?
    Suddenly he saw something buried in a region
of the darkness to his side, and he shifted behind a large boulder
at his side and hid from there, and his heart leapt as he studied
the dark spacesuit figure shifting lifelessly forward, and it
shifted out from the darkness into where some starlight was beaming
down, and he studied the figure not realizing what would
happen!
    He felt like moving away from the figure but
he would be spotted for one, and he studied the gun and it looked
like an old one, and he wondered who the hell was there and where
he had got the spacesuit and gun, and noticed that the spacesuit
was an old version.
    There was something strange there that he
could not grasp and he studied everything over and over trying to
grasp something, going over everything he could think of, and it
was like there was something there that should not be there, but it
was there!
    He studied the spacesuit faceplate and could
not see through the dark shiny material, and the figure never
reacted, and he wondered what would happen if he rushed towards
it
    He sensed he could do something stupid and he
studied the faceplate of the spacesuit more and more, and stood
back shocked!
    He thought he saw a skeleton, and it moved
away, and realized that there usually was a name on most
spacesuits, even the old ones, and he tried to see it and though
saw it he could not see the letters properly, and as it vanished
into the darkness he thought he saw it said Anderson.
    He was confused, trying to work out what they
should do, and what it might do, and what could happen!
    When he finally returned to where the others
were he soon found the other two astronauts at exactly where they
had been, but noticed that their positions had altered as though
they had done something and returned to where they had been.
    While he rested over the ground he wondered
what the hell an astronaut, or even a ghost astronaut, was trying
to shoot him, or what he was actually doing, and realized again
that the shuttle was unbelievably valuable and worth it, but why
had they not just taken it, as they never had guns, and he realized
they might be just after its technology and he considered if they
could take it without them suspecting it.
     

Chapter 5
     
    The First Death
     
    Once the sun rose above the horizon
Cronenberg went out and explored where the other astronaut had been
and was surprised that there were no marks anywhere, and found
where he himself had been there and where he had been behind the
boulders and found his own footsteps in the sand.
    He searched everywhere and started to think
he had imagined it, and he examined the hill over at his side in
the sunlight and realized it would be quick to climb and decided to
go up and explore the region from the top, as he had intended.
    If he needed the others he would return and
go back up, and he quickly climbed up and at the top stood staring
at the fascinating view, with Mars stretching out into the horizon
all about him, and he spotted the shuttle, and spotted a large
short message beside it, written in the sand and with boulders,
with a SOS message, showing their destination and they had crashed,
and he was sure the satellites would spot it, and most could spot
any changes in the landscape and environment and detect anything
unusual and take close up photos, which would be sent back to the
base – and they would be looking for it after the communications
stopped!
    He examined