[ WP ] You 're a human scientist living on the moon . One day , while out in your spacesuit , you notice a small human child playing in the dirt . She 's not wearing a spacesuit , but she 's breathing just fine .

It has been 2 years, 3 months and 7 days since I have arrived at Moon Base Alpha. I am here as part of a 3-year mission, exploring the moon and preparing for the first real human colony on the moon. My job here is to scout out possible locations for the colony. I go out with my rover and I travel for days on end, even though all the locations have already been charted by orbital photography. But still, it is a good job, and I love the fact that I am one of the few men who have set foot on this moon. 
 
 Today I am doing final checks of the selected location for the colony. I sat in my rover on autopilot for 25 hours, but finally, I arrived. 
 
 I step out of the rover and I begin setting up my equipment. All seems well, I had some troubles in the rover on the way here, an error message popped up, quoting an unidentified error with some of my equipment, but it disappeared quickly and I have not bothered with it since, I will check on it after I return to base, for now, everything works. 
 
 I deploy the scanner probes which quickly engage their engines and begin rushing above the landscape, scanning all in their path. I set the dirt analysers to work and I look towards the valley and imagine the colony that will arise here, with machines working and building, humans supervising, the young flying around and playing new sports, perhaps they will play a sort of quidditch with jetpacks. Jetpacks are impractical on earth, but here, with the low gravity, they are quite useful, and also quite fun. 
 
 But then I see a sight I can not believe. A young girl, could not be more than eight, and her dog, a black labrador, playing in the dirt next to the river. I try to snap back to reality thinking I must have fallen asleep, but I am not asleep, I am not dreaming this. I see the girl playing in the green valley with her dog, no oxygen suits, nothing. 
 
 How could this be, this valley that is before me is supposed to be barren moon rock, and I know just moments ago it was. Then how come I am seeing this wonderfull earth-like scenery. Now there is even a sky, it is reddish but there are clouds, how can there be clouds on the moon, how can there be wind blowing them in directions, how can this place exist. It is a dream but I know I am awake. 
 
 But I feel tired, I must sit. Perhaps the shock of this event has worn me out, perhaps I will just close my eyes for a minute. 
 
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 Day 825 of our mission at Moon Base Alpha. I have been sent to check on our location scout. He left base a few days ago to do final checks on the selected colony location but after arriving at the location he has failed to check in, and when we contacted his rover, it did not respond except the automatic verification of receiving our transmission. 
 
 I have arrived at the location, there are machines still at work because they were never stopped, and the location scout is sitting on a box. His oxygen supply seems to have failed, at least it seems he died with a smile on his face, over what I can only imagine.
