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“They were not entirely happy. The young man and his companion often went apart and appeared to weep. I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched. Yet why were these gentle beings unhappy?”

“It was a creepy kind of quiet that’s hard to describe.”

“But now there was nothing. I never realised how utterly silent Mars is. It’s a desert world with practically no atmosphere to convey sound. I could hear my own heart beat”