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Updated: May 27, 2025
She took off her own helmet-speaker, throat-mike and mask and unslung her tank-pack, breathing cautiously. The air was chilly, and musty-acrid with the odor of antiquity the first Martian odor she had smelled but when she lit a cigarette, the lighter flamed clear and steady and the tobacco caught and burned evenly.
They took half an hour to force this, and were on the point of sending above for heavy equipment when it yielded enough for them to squeeze through. Fitzgerald, in the lead with the light, stopped short, looked around, and then gave a groan that came through his helmet-speaker like a foghorn. "Oh, no! No!" "What's the matter, Ivan?" Sachiko, entering behind him, asked anxiously. He stepped aside.
Tony Lattimer had gone forward and was sweeping his flashlight back and forth, swearing petulantly, his voice harshened and amplified by his helmet-speaker. "I thought I was blasting into a hallway; this lets us into a room. Careful; there's about a two-foot drop to the floor, and a lot of rubble from the blast just inside."
"I don't know that I ought to mention this in front of Martha, but two floors above we hit a room it must have been the reference library for one of the departments that had close to five hundred books in it." The noise that interrupted him, like the squawking of a Brobdingnagian parrot, was only Ivan Fitzgerald laughing through his helmet-speaker.
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