Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

2:07pm Fri. Apr. 20, 2384Once the captain let him out, he realized that if Ava wasmissing, there was no one who could actually enforce hissentence. He no sooner got thru his door than he keyed in theaddress of Ava's lab. It was as he saw it last, the day theywent to Trenst.He had enough conscious to check the aging files first,they were right in the front. There were three packages readyto install. He was pretty sure he knew how to do that, but hefound a tutorial and went thru that first. He was almost right,he didn't know about the unallocated soul check. There weretwo caught, he had to re-allocate them. They would havefrozen for seconds as the crystal switched over. If they werewith anyone, the people they were with were asking whathappened to them. Most of what was installed was actually inthe instrumentation buses and signal processing, so it wasunlikely anything else would be noticed.This much crystal to install meant that Ava had probablybeen missing three days. If new crystal wasn't installed onschedule, time slices would start to get short, scenery wouldpixilate, some objects would disappear or turn into wireframes, memory would get fuzzy and people would feeltorpid. They could have gone a few more days, but keepingtheir substrate fresh is the most important function of theSystems Administrator.When the new crystal was installed he checked the master108