Rabbit Hole on Mars - Day 13 (Nov 13) 384 words

Chapter 13

The song ended, but no one moved. All eyes at the NASA facility were on the rabbit rolling off into the distance.
“Game plan is changing everybody,” Brian said, “As far as I'm concerned we've got seventeen days until our time on Mars comes to an abrupt end. Frankie's controller hasn't told us otherwise, so we need to assume our end is pending. Kantpis and Joe, what are your thoughts?”
Joe looked at Kantpis who nodded for him to say his next words, “We have been triangulating on several locations based on Minecraft users, Donnie Darko streamers and now those who have bought a faulty refrigerator. We need a few more specifics to slip during conversations. Once we feel we have really narrowed it down, we will conduct several raids.”
“Raids?!” Donna asked
“Teams are ready for addresses we provide them and then we will conduct a raid after raid, hopefully one of them will reveal the rabbit maker.”
“You plan on raiding a few homes?”
“A few dozen actually. Of course we want to have more certainty before we pick the date to conduct raids, but time is going to run out.”
Scott interjected, “Donna, is Frankie still working on the labyrinth?”
Donna pulled up a real time satellite pic, “Yes and he's not slowing down, that's for sure.”
“Can you calculate our drive time to the top of the hill for Opportunity verses the drive time the rabbit has back to our corral?”
Donna crunched some numbers, “I see what you're doing. Yes, if we go up to the hilltop to get Frankie's attention, he won't return to us until we are back in our corral he built for us.”
“What are you guys scheming over there?” Brian demanded.

Scott laughed to himself, “Martian rebellion.”

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