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“PART V The Haunted Mine”
― Mark Anson, Below Mercury

“Now, on August 9, 2151, just six days short of Mercury’s fearsome perihelion, a bloated Sun three times the diameter of the one seen from Earth crawls towards its searing noon. The day has lasted over nine hundred hours from sunrise, baking the surface of Mercury to temperatures that would turn many metals to pools of shimmering liquid. There is no air in Mercury’s jet-black sky to carry the heat away to cooler climes; the atmosphere escaped into space long ago, forced away by the intense heat and silent solar wind. The”
― Mark Anson, Below Mercury

“Matt looked up and out of the cockpit windows. The day below was ending; a wave of darkening could be seen to the right, spreading across the landmass towards them.”
― Mark Anson, Below Mercury

“She took a deep breath – too deep, and the ice-cold air burned in her chest, but she didn’t care, all she wanted to do was breathe, breathe. She inhaled dust, and coughed, but it didn’t matter, she just sucked more air down. A”
― Mark Anson, Below Mercury

“The roadway disappeared into the black shadows at the base of the mountains; the feeble light from above could not reach into the Stygian darkness of their hidden valleys.”
― Mark Anson, Below Mercury

“May 4, 2151, and the rain fell from a grey morning sky over Andersen Base. Drifting”
― Mark Anson, Below Mercury

“Matt Crawford stood by a porthole on the lounge deck, gazing at the stars wheeling past outside. He had found that he needed to look outside at least once a day, just to affirm that there was an outside beyond the walls of the crew module, and to see the cold hardness of the stars in the jet-black sky. Staring”
― Mark Anson, Below Mercury

“The possibility of a mutiny had grown more compelling with every step they had taken into the mine, but it was puzzling that they had not encountered any survivors, if this was the case. The accommodation levels were the logical place to set up a base after a mutiny, but the place was deserted. Talk”
― Mark Anson, Below Mercury