Donald of Mars Episode 16-20

A story on building a new colony on Mars and what it will take to live there

Chapter 16 Moring Workout

“Hi Donald. Got our suits ready for our morning run. You want to put them on now or after doing your Tai Chi routine?” Miray asked and he entered Brocks.

“Our run?” he asked in surprise? “And I thought you would be over at Candy’s.”

“No, mornings are still here. Mohammed said we’d get a far better deal from the sponsors if we appear to be a fitness couple. He is going to have cameras mounted on both our suits, but that won’t be for a few weeks. These first weeks I am to learn your Tai Chi routine, then we work out on running together and keeping pace with each other.”

“He will probably need a drone then, and permission of the tunnel Residence Committee of the tunnels we are running in order to have a filming drone ahead of us.”

“Already ahead of you. He’s already looking into who and where to get permission, for both before we move to the place you are building, and after.”

He considered that, then asked her, “What do you think? Tai Chi with, or without, the weight suit?”

She gave him that smile he loved seeing. “We look better without, and are more apt to keep people watching us in tight clothes, especially on earth. But the gap for filming is too big. We would lose people more during that gap.”

“That will only be here on Mars. No one from earth is going to be watching it live and that gap will be edited out.”

“Good point.”