[ WP ] First people on Mars discover buried ruins of ancient Martian civilization .

`` Victor! Victor you'd better see this!'' 
 
 The astronaut, hearing his name, bounded across the red landscape. He had been sent to search Mars for life and possibility of colinization two months ago, and by now the excitement had faded, replaced by a longing for home, for company other than Lola. 
 
 `` Yes Lola?'' In responce, Lola said not a word but held up a strange rock. It was smoothened, like a fractured dome or broken plate. On it were strange etchings, running in vertical ribbons of indecipherable scrawl. It was the same red shade as the rest if the arid planet, but possessed a simple sleekness absent from the rest of the wasteland. 
 
 `` That's incrediable Lola! You do n't suppose...'' 
 
 `` I do! There's no other possibility, Victor!'' 
 
 `` Lola, let's wait to share this with Earth and the Moon.'' 
 
 `` Why? This is it! This is what humanity has been dreaming of for generations! Victor, we're going in the history files! Picture it; Lola Ringer and Victor MacDavid; discoverers of alien life!'' 
 
 `` You're right Lola. This is something we *should* inform the Moon base.'' 
 
 `` C'mon, we'll tell them together!'' 
 
 `` No Lola. You discovered it. You go on ahead.'' Lola did n't have to be told twice. She bounded across the landscape, strange stone in tow. 
 
 `` Yes Lola.'' Victor muttered to homself, grabbing Lola's life support line in one hand and his blade in the other. `` Together...''
