Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

ack into here. Not only that, but all its sensors were alsomapped into Thom's lab and out of this one. He wondered ifAva foresaw this happening and used that to guard it fromAlan. He wondered if she didn't want to be removed from thisencapsulation.He found he could find nothing about where she hadgone. Her render vector was undefined. Her sensory streamwas too. He searched every channel of the render engine andfound no references to her. It was as he had told the captain, itcould very well be beyond his powers and it was, at leastfrom here.He found Thom's lab to be well guarded. When he triedcoming in thru the front door, he could get to the villa, but thedoor to the lab was locked. He couldn't get to either lab fromthis side. He decided to look around the property a little incase she was nearby. He was just going down the verandasteps to the beach when he heard footsteps behind him. Heturned and saw Thom on the top of the stairs."I understand Ava is missing," Alan said."She's not with you?" Thom challenged."She hasn't been by for three days," Alan said.Thom expected that. Alan turned and started back up thestairs. If Thom was here, he could search this universe forAva better than he could. "She hasn't been here either forthree days.""She's in an alternate veron store," Alan said, "Theinstruments say it's in your lab."110