Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

Then he looked around in some system logs. He sawHeymon’s men had put in long hours over that auxiliaryveron store, but if they had anything to report, it wasn’t in thelogs. If Ava had been around she probably would have hadthe conversation in that room recorded, but he couldn’t findthat in any logs he knew of.The next thing he did was look over the logs to see whenand how she disappeared. It wasn’t easy to find, but since heknew Ava kept logs that the remaining officers on the shipdidn’t know about, he kept digging. The file was disguised astoiletry experiments, but was way too big to be what itpretended. He forced it into the log viewer and found what hewas looking for.All the action was in Thom’s lab, and to do anything butwatch he would have to get into there after all, re-mappingthe controls and instruments at the hardware data layer andmanually editing the micro-amp accounting to cover histracks while he did that. It was a long laborious process and ittook him half the night.Once he had some mapping he could use, the log entriesmade sense, at least he could follow the action because Avadid have the audio channels logged that day. She haddisappeared at 4:11pm on Tuesday, in the middle of asentence. He was able to find out that the auxiliary veronstore she was running in had been the target of Thom’s newtangler beam just five minutes before. What did that mean?What could he do about it? Did that even have anything to do117