Is There Life On Mars? (part eleven)

As the title says, this is the eleventh and penultimate part of the story, Is There Life on Mars?
As we're very close to the end of the story, it's now available only to subscribers. I hate having to resort to this, but this is the reality of the current internet age, especially with AI scrapers stealing everything they can get their hands on.

Subscription is free, and you can cancel at any time, so I kindly invite you to subscribe to read the story.

If you haven't started reading yet, know that the first part is accessible without a subscription. Give it a try by clicking on this link to read from the beginning, and if you like it enough that you want to read it until the end, I presume that you'll agree to subscribe.

Thank you in advance.

Alternatively, you can read the entire story as an e-book for the price of your choice: