June Blogchain: Description

This month’s blogchain is about Description. Write a location description, and make us feel as if we are there. No dialogue, no introductory comments, just a location. We’re the tourists, you’re the guide. The people participating are listed below. I’ll keep updating the list until everyone has posted.

orion_mk3 – http://nonexistentbooks.wordpress.com (link to this month’s post)
juniper – http://www.katjuniper.com/ (link to this month’s post)
LadyMage – http://www.katherinegilraine.com/ (link to this month’s post)
dolores haze – http://dianedooley.wordpress.com/ (link to this month’s post)
jkellerford – http://jennykellerford.wordpress.com/ (link to this month’s post)
Ralph Pines – http://ralfast.wordpress.com/ (link to this month’s post)
AuburnAssassin – http://clairegillian.com/ (link to this month’s post)
pezie – http://www.erinbrambilla.com/ (link to this month’s post)
Inkstrokes – http://drlong67.wordpress.com/ (link to this month’s post)
WildScribe – http://DionneObesoBlog.com/ (link to this month’s post)
Guardian – http://daewrites.blogspot.com/ (link to this month’s post)
Lyra Jean – http://lyratorres.wordpress.com/ <—- ME!
egoodlett – http://wordlarceny.blogspot.com/ (link to this month’s post)
cwachob – http://www.corriewachob.blogspot.com/ (link to this month’s post)
Aheïla – http://thewriteaholicblog.wordpress.com/ (link to this month’s post)
faerydancer – http://digitalinkwell.wordpress.com (link to this month’s post)
TheMindKiller – http://www.jabberwocky.ws/ (link to this month’s post)
Irissel – http://irissel.blogspot.com/ (link to this month’s post)
xcomplex – http://www.arielemerald.blogspot.com/ (link to this month’s post)
Robbi Sommers Bryant – http://www.robbibryant.blogspot.com (link to this month’s post)

Here is my entry:

“Don’t do anything stupid like take your helmet off. It will only end the VR program and it’s a bitch to start back up again.” Qeb heard the real estate agent through his helmet mike.

It was a very good program. It even had the gravity correct. He bounced lightly on in heated boots. Chryse Planitia, the plains of Gold, here on Mars. It didn’t look very golden. It was rather a dull rust red with streaks of orange and tan but it was very flat and he wondered where the Viking I lander would be out here if any of it was still around that is. He looked across the flat terrain and saw nothing.

“We don’t have updated maps yet but there are a few dome towns being built inside a few of the craters here in Chryse.” He heard the real estate agent again. “But the museum won’t be located in any of those. Turn around.”

Qeb turned around and it took his breath away. They were just far enough away from the Southern Highlands and an outflow channel to not crane the neck and still see the top. The real estate agent came up beside and tapped his arm. He barely felt it through the thick insulation against negative 112 degrees Fahrenheit temprature. She pointed at a curve in the outflow channel.

“The Martian Museum will take up part of the cliff facing Chryse and will go around the bend and face into the outflow channel itself. There will be a bridge crossing the outflow channel and the museum will continue down the side of the outflow channel onto the floor of the canyon. There are other sites to see if you are interested, of course.”

“Perhaps, I will be interested after seeing the actual plans of the museum. What will it be like inside?”

“The interior will be pressurized and temperature controlled. The bridge, to save on building costs, will be open air. There are air locks, one for each entrance, and numerous safe rooms in case of depressurization. That can still happen from time to time but not a big worry especially where it will be built. Shall we head back now and look over the building plans?”

“Yes, that will be great. Let’s do that.”

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If you enjoyed reading the other participants’ blogs in the chain and want to return to them but forgot to bookmark. All them will be listed in my Writer’s Blogs links on the right hand side near the bottom.