Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

"Then I'll never see you," she teased. "I better make themost of it now," she patted the space beside her on the seat."Have I been that bad?" he asked. He always rememberedher complaining of him being underfoot more than beingaway."Since those quantum mechanics texts arrived I've hardlyseen you."He sat beside her, put his arm around her shoulder. Shelooked good but not gaudy today, in a white peasant blouseand big colorful skirt, both of a gauzy material, both withoutunderwear. She lowered the lights and lit a torch beside thetable they were next to. "It was interesting stuff. There's notmuch new in the theory, but so much has been done withapparatus these days that we're set to make great advances.With macroscopic samples of anticondensates and theinstrumentation that was in those texts, we are in a uniqueposition to look for naturally occurring condensates in thedark matter." As soon as he said that he knew he hadapproached this from the wrong direction for her, he shouldhave talked about quantum computing, that was more likelyto hold her interest.She put her head on his shoulder. He could feel theweight and suppleness of her hair. She patted his hand, "Ihope this gear you're building works, but I hope you won't betoo hurt if you don't find condensates here. After all, wecould be within the Kuiper belt already.""Darryl is plotting the motions of every snowball we124