Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

employ, opening a new back door wasn’t in his allowance.“But he COULD!” Ava shouted. “He could be at my dockin an hour with that PowerBoat, because he is still in myuniverse on the same landscape map.” She paced the landingin front of the kitchen and yandrille space, from one bedroomdoor to the other. The one called ‘Dara’s' had been closed forquite a long time. He hadn’t had that cherub out since the firstcheron shortage. “I’m claiming he has to pull his old universefrom backup,” Ava went on about her side of the case.Thom’s old universe was two rooms and some viewscompared to Ava’s, which had seventeen hundred squaremiles of land in the Caribbean, she wouldn’t get away withthat. They had just been granted the separation today and thelawyers had cases already. She went on about how he hadnothing of his own in her universe but his lab and she waswilling to let him take that with him and eliminate needingmagic on that door. She was obviously not ready to go tosleep, whatever time it was back in her universe. “If he hadhis way I can never be sure I’m alone any more, and theboundary he picked is halfway across the island I’m on.”He spent the rest of Afternoonday listening to her ventabout the divorce, Thom’s lawyer and Thom. He wondered ifshe was only here because he would listen to it. He worriedabout taking the time, his universe is so stuck in three-dreality that he has to eat, and so realistic that if he didn’t getthe farm chores done, there would be nothing to eat. Ava, ofcourse, would not be concerned about that. While she was96