It's the last day of the evacuation of mars, and everyone was now safe on earth, and as the years went by an time came to see the asteroids hit the planet mars, everyone watched the first impact thru telescopes and on a computer monitor, that was connected to the landing craft that was in earth's orbit, placed there just for watching this event, and it happened the asteroid hit so hard, that it burst into flames reaching thousands of miles high, making the planet mars burn for weeks consuming all of the planets oxygen an atmosphere, when the second one hit it created a very big dust cloud, that was about ( 300 miles by 275 miles ) wide, that stayed floating around the planets lower atmosphere, and "Kappa man" an mars went toward the planet mars to investigate, if the planet was liveable or if it can still support life, but they found it to be a lifeless planet not capable of supporting any life what so ever, what they saw on their monitors an scanners was zero life, everything was dead all the creatures, plants, all the micro-scopic organism gone, even ( 90% ) of the water evaporated with some of it frozen at the planets poles, so they headed back home to the marker, which was now everyones only home, one thing did survive the whole destruction of the planet mars, their marker with the face on it that could be seen from the planets orbit in space, so after the massive destruction of the planet mars, it wouldn't be long before the same thing, was going to happen to the planet earth, so now was the time to get started on doing something, to get everyone "Off" of the planet earth since they had realized that no one was coming back for them, "Kappa man" knew that it would take at least ( 60,000 ) trips, to get everyone "Off" the planet to where ever they needed to go, and that was now only a year away, before the first of ( 3 ) asteroid the size of large mountains, that would hit the planet earth, so "Mars" and "Kappa man" gave it alot of thought as to what to do ?, they noticed that the next galaxy has a planet which has similiar properties as the planet earth, now the trip would be longer unless they build a transport type carrier, to tow it to the next galaxy with at least ( 100 ) or ( 200 ) people at a time, besides those in the landing craft, so that was the plan to take as many people to the next galaxy as possible, meanwhile they found all the material needed to build the carrier, now the trip takes ( 3 ) hours there and ( 3 ) hours back, so that will take a toll on the landing craft plus the crew, and the carrier would take more people to safety at one time, the planet was not ( 100% ) ready like the planet earth, but it'll have to do to keep everyone alive, until they would be able to return to earth then only if it was possible, so "Kappa man" made an announcement "To the people of "Earth", it seems that we have to make another move again, to the next galaxy where there is a planet there, that can support life and keep us alive until we can return, so we have to get started today, ( 25 ) people need to get ready to leave tommorrow, then "Teresa" stepped up, and said "I don't know about anybody else, but I speak only for me and my family when I say, that I have had this on my mind since I first heard about the asteroids, that would hit here on earth in my life time, and I feel this is my "Home", an I will not leave here for any reason, when it hits I'll just have to adjust to what ever happens, and my family wants to stay too !", so "Kappa man" told "Teresa" that he admired her loyalty to this planet, and that he was concerned with their safety, then more people stepped up and said that they wanted to stay too, and live out their lives on earth thru what ever happens, they wanted to stay with "Teresa".

    "Kappa man" then made another announcement "How many of you wishes to stay on the planet Earth ?, please step to the left, pass the word to everyone, talk amoung yourselfs for a moment, make sure the people at the very back of the group understands clearly of what they want, because once we're gone, and thru taking those who want to leave, we won't be coming back for a very long time, and i mean a very, very, very long time", there was a big silence amoung all the people of about ( 650,000 ) Humans, mog people, and clones, then a voice came from the center of the group saying, "Would that be your left ?, or Our left ?", "Kappa man" replied in amazement as to the question, "That would be your "Left", which would be my "Right", pass that answer all the way to the back !", and there was another great silence again, then what "Kappa man" saw next was beyond belief, "Everyone" except about ( 75 ) people moved ( 100' ) hundred feet to their "Left", which was "Kappa man's" "Right" then he said "I guess that means there will be less trips to the next galaxy, I would like to say that I'm very proud of all of you, and I wish you will you all worked real hard to build what we have here, we'll be leaving soon to the next galaxy in hopes that our people, can continue to prosper in the universe, From the bottom of my heart I wish you all alot of luck in the future that await you, and we'll remember you always, we love you all Goodbye". So "Kappa man" told the ( 75 ) people to get ready to leave an say their goodbyes, also for them to choose which ( 25 ) people would leave first in the next hour, they choose amoung themself and the ( 25 ) people got in the landing craft, and "Off" they went heading up into space leaving Earth for the last time, as they traveled toward the next galaxy, mars came up with a hell of an idea, then "Mars" told the crew "Kappa man" what would happen if we didn't go to the next galaxy, but instead we can head to the "Curve Time" belt, and we can go into "Earth's" Future, we can help our people the best way we can with what happened, what do you think ?", "Kappa man" thought about it for a minute, then said "You know you do have something there it's worth a try", So they entered the curve time an then returned back into earth's future, But they didn't make an accurate entry, to be at about the time when the asteroids already hit, so they could help them at that time, they were "Off" by a thousand years or so, a course was then set to go back toward the "Curve Time", they started making the corrections, needed to get to the right point in time, but suddenly before they could fire their engines, and go into the "Curve Time" belt again, thousands upon thousands of very small meteors started passing thru the area, the landing craft was hit about ( 31 ) times, one very seriously causing severe damage, causing the lost of "Helm Control" to lock up, sending the landing craft spinning out of control back toward earth, it was now in a straight collision course with earth, and they would reach earth in about ( 2 ) hours, "Kappa man" shut down the engines so they would drift toward earth in ( 6 ) hours instead of ( 2 ) hours, this way they could try to fix some of the damage done to the landing craft, at least enough to land the craft safely, after about ( 3 ) hours of working "Mars" and "Kappa man", got everything working enough to be able to have limited control of their landing, as they approached earth's atmosphere it started getting rough, the landing craft was rattling violently, an thumping hard, along with alot of clicking metal twisting, as it proceeded down toward earth surface.

    "Kappa man" tried to find a good spot to land safely, and they went over the area where the moltebyte was dumped, the ocean there was in an unstable pulled type state, pulling on the landing craft as it passed by, with such strength that it caused the landing craft, to get a large crack on it's side, but due to it's high speed of travel, it was sling shot out of control to the Island west of the moltebyte, "Kappa man" got just enough control back to make the landing, it was a hard landing hitting the ground with a couple bounces, before the landing craft came to a complete stop, everyone grabbed some of the equipment, boxes, and tools needed to survive on the planet surface, and they ran "Off" an away from the landing craft, everyone got out safely with only a few bumps and bruises, on top of that they were happy to just be alive, the Island is a very large one, the first thing needed to be done was to construct shelter, so they started working on building a city, since all of them knew that no one was coming after them to take them home, now everyone here had "High Technology Knowledge" since most of them were scientist, they all talked about the Island and the city they were building, so they picked a name for their new city, and it would be called "Atlantis" named after the one scientist amoung them, who designed the blueprints for the great city of "Atlantis", and it was as modern a city as you could Imagine, it had running water, electric power, and other space age Items like back home on "Tarth", they had children over time which they grew up, the children went to school to learn everything they could, to keep up with their parents society in the age of "High Technology". Now the city of "Atlantis" was a beautiful city, made of hundreds of almost pyramid type buildings yet smaller, and more square with flat top areas, many different types and sizes, one very large pyramid marker type about ( 650 ) feet high, but with the last floor had a large room in the center, and from up there they had a view of the whole coast line, for at least ( 30 ) mikes away in both directions, and they all figured it was better not to make contact with the rest of the world, Including all descendence from "Teresa's" family, or "Adamus", or "Adam an Eve", or anyone that might have survived the asteroid hitting Earth.

    Now back in "Teresa's" time line, it seemed to them that "Kappa man" and "Mars", were not coming back to pick-up the other ( 50 ) people, that wanted to go with them it had been ( 9 ) months, and everyone felt that something had happened, because they would have returned by now, as for the asteroids was only days from hitting, everyone knew their way of living would change some how after they hit, so they stock piled food and water to last them at least on year, everyone worked hard for this day, the first asteroid hit with such a force, that it threw billions of tons of dirt, and sand into the atmosphere, in which it spread out like a high umbrella covering half of the Earth, the Impact created a very large crater, ( 300 ) miles wide by ( 110 ) miles long by ( 5 ) miles deep, it was felt by all of the people, and creatures on the largest continent island, but they had survived yet all the same, the sky was always dark with lots of rays of sunshine at times, barely peeping thru the thickest layers of dirt clouds, lingering ( 10 ) mikes up, just hanging there in the same spot, Now the little rays of sun light looked like flash lights, shooting light toward the ground only in certain areas, also the temperature in the first ( 3 ) days dropped by ( 10' ) degrees, it was now ( 38' ) degrees in the daytime, and ( 0' ) degrees at night, things were pretty comfortable for the most parts in the marker, and the surrounding cities they had built due to their "Higher Technology", left behind by "Kappa man" and "Mars" in preparation for this Day, Now the second asteroid hit in the middle of the Ocean, throwing Billions upon Billions of gallons of water, into the lower atmosphere about ( 5 ) mikes up, combined with the damage from the first asteroid, was going to prove fatal to all the lifeforms on "Earth", the temperature had now hit ( 10' ) degrees in the daytime, and ( -30' ) degrees at night, "Teresa" an the people started to notice that the trees, bushies, and plants were starting to shrivel an sage, they had also started dropping most of their leaves, fruits and branches, some of the creatures started to pass by the marker an surrounding cities, creating damage to alot of their buildings, knocking down walls and pilars like they weren't there, these creatures had never came this far out of the jungle areas, but now they were searching for food, of the type they normally ate and water, those creatures seemed to be dying out around their regular living areas, and behind them were the meat eaters, who had now looked upon the humans, clones and mog people as their new source of food, little by little all the creatures were migrating in all directions, trying to find new areas to live away from the cold and a place that had plenty of food, for the most part ( 90% ) of the people were safe inside the marker, but each month they were losing ( 2% ) of their people to the creatures of all types, since they had ( 650,000 ) people they lost about ( 250 ) to ( 490 ) people monthly, it was no longer safe to go outside the marker or city areas, then ( 2 ) months later the rains started to come down, they started to erode alot of the ground around the cities and marker, the river started to flood little by little with time, as the days went by the water levels went up, and the marker started to have water dripping thru alot of the cracks an seams inside, so the people had a meeting in regards to the rising water levels, that continued to keep going higher an higher, it has now reached the Edge of the city's north end section, they all talked about moving to higher grounds if things got really bad.

    When the second asteroid hit there was a "Big Tsunami", but luckily it never reached that far Inland, a wall of water about ( 400 ) feet only damaged and killed everything within ( 10 ) mikes from the beach line, it never got close enough to the people or marker, yet the rains were caused by the second asteroid, due to all the water that it shot into the atmosphere, alot of the water that had fallen was also turning to ice, due to the cold temperatures in the day, and the freezing temperatures at night, the people had a second meeting in which they talked again about moving to higher ground, up into the hills or larger mountains before they get flooded, and then frozen in that part of the planet, at that time "Teresa" agreed, so she told the clones to take as many builders as needed, up into the higher mountains to work in the caves to make them as comfortable as possible, for all the people in the cities and marker, and for them to use her creature friends who were now big, so they would be able to carry the equipment needed to work up there, she asked her creature friends mentally of what she needed of them ( "Off Course" ), So they headed up to the mountains about ( 20,000 ) of them to the caves to start construction, "Teresa" stayed behind to keep everyone back at the city, ready to make the big move into the mountains and caves, the water levels was now ( 75 ) feet from the edge of the river, and the houses, buildings were at least ( 10' ) feet underwater, that was the lowest part of the city, as the water fell on the ground it froze quickly, at that time "Teresa" told everyone to evacuate the city, at the lowest part ( 300 ) people at a time, and head up to the caves now almost completed an modified, ready to be lived in especially those people, who were now without shelter in the lower part of the city, she also had some clones modify the marker, to be sealed up so it won't get any more water damage, due to the rains an rising water levels, her mother an father said that the marker was made of a certain type of stone, but that the rest of the cities was just regular materials, and that the marker would not erode for thousands upon thousands of years, but with the water coming down the way it is, it would slowly erode the cities into dust, leaving nothing not even a trace of a city being next to the marker, months had passed by it was time for "Teresa", along with the rest of the people to start leaving the area, she sent her parents with the first group people to head up towards the new fixed up caves, a couple of day later it was time for theresa with the others to leave, some of the people were afraid to leave, so they hid in areas of the marker in some of the hidden rooms, with "Teresa" not knowing this she ordered the marker sealed up, it was done as per her orders, the water levels was now at the edge of the marker and rising, the people continued to leave looking back as to saying good-bye, to what once was their secure home for a good part of their lives, As "Teresa" headed up toward their new home she recieved bad news along the way, sent by a messenger her mother was killed by some large ant like creatures, that had come thru the caves in the middle of the night, also about ( 2100 ) other people were killed fighting them off, "Teresa" fell to the ground and started to cry saying "why is this happening ?" she cried for days on end, because "Teresa" loved her mother so much, she had lost her will to live, she was a strong leader before the bad news arrived, Now she looked weak and not wanting to Eat, her father "Adamus" kept trying to talk to "Teresa", but it proved to be no good an this went on for ( 3 ) days, "Adamus" was now mad at his daughter, and went into her living area and walked up to "Teresa", then he gave her a great big slap in the face, she was shocked, then "Adamus" told her "I know you loved your mother, and she loved you too !, more then anything else she ever had, but you are very selfish, there's "Pluto" an your daughter "Minerva", also your son "Saturn" who need their mother Now, just like your mother was there for you, I miss "Eve" Too !, But I still see her in you and the kids, I don't want to lose you Too !, so wake up, and get yourself together, be there for your family, and the rest of our people, I'm to old to be a leader, everyone needs you to be strong, just remember "Eve" was always there for you up till this time, it's now your turn, got it", "Teresa" answered "Your right father, my family needs me now, and so does the people". "Adamus" replied "Now that's my Girl, also one thing you should know, amoung the people killed, was mainly all of the original crew members from "Tarth", there's only me and ( 4 ) others, everyone who survived were the younger ones, because they could move around fastier, alot of the Mog people survived along with mainly ( 80% ) of the clones, and families left by the original crew members, we just lost alot of our main teachers, that were teaching our future kids an the one to come, they were learning things they needed to know, How to stay alive", theresa answered "I'll do my best to learn as much as I can, so I can be able to teach others." So "Teresa" went out to greet her family, and there was lots of hugs and kisses, this went on for awhile, then "Teresa" started telling the clones to start building Aqueducts, for water an other special projects to make live better for them all, while they lived under those conditions in the caves, the next day they felt a great big Earthquake equal to a ( 11.4 ) magnitude, this was caused by the third asteroid, which had hit right in the center of the biggest single continent, causing it to crack along the center in every direction, the cracks went for hundreds of mikes in all directions, these cracks were at least ( 70' ) feet wide, in some areas Lava liquid was squirting out into the air, as if the earth was bleeding, in other areas water filled in the ( 70' ) foot gaps, bringing water to the center where the the asteroid hit, creating a large "Niagra Falls", the crater was ( 300 ) mikes by ( 291 ) mikes long, and by at least ( 36 ) mikes deep, and with all the cracks leaving the area, some touched the oceans coast while other were bringing water toward the center, by going over the edge as to trying to fill up the crater at the bottom of the falls, the water was coming over with a loud roar and a great speed, the ( 70' ) foot cracks became ( 150' ) foot channels in seconds, and ( 250' ) foot channels between some land mass areas, the rushing water eroded the channel edges furthier an furthier, it was almost filled to the top of some cliff sites, then it seemed to settle down after a couple of hours, but this caused the "Titanic Plates" to move a foot apart per month, causing the single continent to become ( 6 ) smaller continents, to drift apart very slowly, "Teresa" and the people had noticed alot of changes, then "Adamus" told everyone that all ( 3 ) asteriods had hit, and that the worst had already accured, So the clones were told to build cities in the direction of higher ground, which was on the other side of these ( 70' ) foot, or ( 80' ) foot cracks, with water in them so they started to build bridges, to be able to go back and fourth on them, the rains started up again, and it was taking a toll on the people an creatures alike, but they knew they had to keep going, the temperature was still getting coldier an coldier as the months went by, due to almost no Sun at all even during the daytime, the water was also begining to freeze down south of their location, this effect kept getting closier an closier with each passing day, the trees were almost but gone, as they walked the surrounding areas, they would run into more and more dead creatures, on occasions when one would die in front of them due to the cold weather, they would cut it up an taking to where the water froze, and keep it there for later when they would need food to eat, but each month the ice would get closier, more and more creatures were dying, the planet was starting to become an ice planet, "Teresa" was having problems just trying to keep her creature friends alive, the people started to live in the cities that was on the other ( 6 ) small continents, where the water an ice had not appeared there yet, "Teresa" went traveling to the other cities by crossing the bridges, there was only ( 3 ) creatures left that went with her, sixteen of her rocks also followed her, they went to the ( 3rd ) continent when suddenly it started raining really hard, everyone started running quickly to the closest city, when they got there they felt a great Big Earthquake, about an ( 8.0 ) magnitude which lasted for ( 2 ) minutes, then ( 5 ) minutes later another Earthquake for ( 30 ) seconds, then the mountain in the area about ( 15 ) away, blew its top shooting a very large cloud of dirt, ash and lava into the air, the orange lava came running down the side of the mountain, the side facing toward the city, alot of the people ran to the mountains and caves, in the other direction away from the mountain splashing lava, the caves that were in that part of the continent, were now going to be their new home, "Teresa" ran to the bridge that lead to the fourth continent and it was no longer there, also the land mass had spread apart farthier by ( 3,000' ) feet, "Teresa" knew she had to make a swim for it, to reach an visit the fourth continent, so she told the rocks and her creature friends with her mind, to go back with the people of the ( 3rd ) continent, and to wait there for her until she came back, so they did as she told them, they headed back to the direction of the other people, "Teresa" swam across yet little did they know, that they would never see each other ever again, when "Teresa" got to the other city on the fourth continent, from there she headed toward the fifth continent, and there too was no bridge, she figured she should head back home it would probably be easier, to go swimming toward home then to keep going, to visit all of the people in each continents, so she told the people on the fourth continent, to get word to the other cities for them not to worry, and to survive the best way they could, until she could find some way to get everyone together again some how, she stayed there a couple of days and then swam back to the main continent, where the main group of people an her kids were at.

    Due to all the Volcanic activities, the daytime looked like night all the time, then things started to get worse, alot of the people started dying because of the cold weather, some of the people of started using animal skins, to protect them selfs from the cold weather, the skins helped them alot an before you knew it, everyone left alive was using them, "Teresa" and her family had survived the worst of all the changes, but her father was not so lucky, he had got some sort of cold weather bacteria from the meat they had eaten, it might not have been cooked very well, and now "Adamus" was dying, "Teresa" stopped to talk to him "father I know you didn't cook your food properly, and this type of bacteria has nothing to do with the viruses, or the diseases that "Jauslin" dropped in the past, and it won't affect us until the planet gets warmer, and that don't seem to be anytime soon, so where did this bacteria come from ?", "Adamus" answered "It seems that this planet, has its own way of terminating its lifeform from the outer surface, so new forms of life can develope, and I guess it got me an we don't have the equipment, to make an antidote and by the looks of it with the people that are left, It's your kids and the kids of the others that seem to be surviving, maybe they have an Immunity against the bacteria, there's only ( 52,000 ) people left on our little continent, and by the looks of it, they'll be about a little over ( 3,000 ) left, when all of the clones, mog people start dying and the kids are the only ones left, Now these kids are of our blood line, so you must take care of them, and teach them to survive an "Reproduce", they may be young, but they must be "Fruitful and Multiply" in order of our blood line to continue, so if you're all to survive they must be taught, and take the good with the bad !". "Teresa" answered "I understand Father, and I'll do as you say for you are a wise man, But I've wanted to know one thing, that I have not asked you before, It's about my mother, can you tell me word for word, How she died ?, Did she suffer ?, Was she alone ?, all of this I would like to know, I'm ready to hear it Now", "Adamus" replied "I believe your ready to hear about, what happened to your mom, well if you remember we came up with the first group, the construction crew of clones, and we started to do the work on the larger caves, that already existed then we Reinforced the ceilings an walls, then we went to work on building inside the caves, and we saw a hill with a black spot, on the side that we started to dig into that mountain, and we then saw a head pop out with clippers, we didn't know what it was, it has two antennas on its head, it moved around frantically so we shot it, thinking that was the end of it, we went back to work then suddenly dirt started falling from the edges, around the head of the large ant, we went back into the hills and rocks to take position, it then happened in a flash, they came out running towards us at such great speed, we opened fire killing hundreds of them as fast as they came out of the ground, at first we thought we had the upper hand, but little did we know how these creatures moved, or think, or how many there were, as we killed them coming out of the hole that formed, they would drag their dead back into the hole, then they would make another assault, and they would do the same thing again an again, when it got packed at the entrance, after ( 5 ) times of doing this on the sixth time, we noticed that they had surrounded us, they came down from the top of the mountain, and then they were everywhere, we felt safe behind the boulders while still firing, and killing them from everywhere they came from, but they were smart they would adapt quickly, suddenly they started tunneling from underneath us behind the boulders, then they got us, and we fought them from behind an there we lost alot of man power, then suddenly they lost interest in us for some reason, and they stampeded really fast in the direction of the caves, where we had just finished working on, and we were still shooting at them as they went by, we killed thousands upon thousands of them, but they just kept coming out of every hole in the ground, thru all the tunnels not even paying us any attention, even thow we were still firing at them.

    Back at the caves, where our people were working, the very large ants made their attack there, the security team there fought really hard, to defend and protect their people, the security team held their position, an they Too killed thousands upon thousands of the large ants, slowly losing the battle due to their large size and numbers, as the ants took control of more of the area, your mother took a position in the center of the cave, along with other security members, but there they lost the fight to the ants, and your mother was killed Instantly, by then the ants had taken control of ( 3/4 ) of the caves we had fixed, everyone left ran towards the other caves with only one entrance, they fought from there a big battle, everyone was losing the battle, until some creatures that eat ants as their food, came out of nowhere and started attacking the ants an eating them fast, like they were very hungry an they never had this many, in one place or at one time, the creatures were four legged large fat elephant size, with a long cone nose an a very long sticky tongue, every time the tongue came out of the nose cone, at would stick ( 8 ) to ( 13 ) of the large ants, these creatures kept doing this for a very long time, by accident we lost a few of our people to the same creatures, they just happened to get in the way of their tongues, the creatures were eating thousands and thousands of ants per seconds, and there was about ( 200 ) of these larger creatures around the cave area, somehow the ants started feeling the danger, they scattered in every direction possibly trying to escape, from these very hungry creatures, and before you knew it the ants were gone, just as quickly as they appeared, the other creatures kept moving after the ants, after that we ran back to the main cave, only to find everyone looking in horror, of all the people that had died so rapidly, I myself felt my heart almost stop, when I saw your mother lying there on the ground, no longer moving nor breathing, I felt like just killing every creature alive, I thought of nothing else as I put my lazer at my head, and then in a split second I stop to think of you an the kids, so I felt that I needed to be around for all of you, and I bottled up my pain, I kept going because I was needed by you an the kids, that's what happened just before you arrived, and now here I am dying on you, leaving you alone to handle all of the little problems by yourself, all I can say now is that you must be there for "Minerva", and "Saturn", yet now that the creatures are dying, we'll be the only dominant species on this planet, I don't have many days left sweetheart, I just want to tell you, ( "I love you very much, and I'm so proud as to what you've become" ), if you can get me some water I feel very thirsty", "Teresa" answered "Of course I'll get you some water !", when she returned with the water, she saw her father was "Dead", the people had a big memorial service for "Adamus", "Teresa" then tried to do as her father asked of her, to give schooling of all the kids when possible, and to teach them the facts of life, an the reproduction system regardless of their age, her whole mission was to Re-populate their group, the main goal to have a large population to Re-Build their cities, and everything on the planet earth, they had to use their old ways of reproducing themself, without the cloning machine, for one thing the cloning machine was sealed up in the marker, and second there was no one left that can operate it anyways, little by little there time was spent only working to stay alive, there was no time for schooling, each generation after "Teresa" kids, knew less and less about where they came from ?, who they were ?, or what they needed to keep advancing foward in a more positive direction, about the only thing that really stuck in their minds was, to keep looking to the sky and wait, for our people to come back to pick us up, the planet earth was very rough with it's Inhabitant, it got extremely cold almost freezing at times, with time the kids were growing up not even wanting to work, all they wanted to do is play, eat, sleep and have sex, nothing else was of any great importance to them, many more people died as time went by, it came to pass that the babies being born to the survivors, were being born with a little more tolerance, to the changes in the weather, the new borns had more hair an thicker skins, after about ( 20 ) years the people were now back to about ( 3,000 ) people, who have survived on that continent, the worst earth had to offer, then "Teresa" went to the second continent which was barely within view, they stepped on...