Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

thru the lab coat. “I popped in to see how you're doing withthose signals but it doesn't take long to see you are nowhere.You're still on the first order. You haven't caught on to athing. You still have only three particle traps, you need ten ortwenty billion to make any sense out of first order. It doesn'tmatter what you tell your captain or Ava, you'll never figure itout in time so we have nothing to worry about.""What are you talking about?""The mission I was sent on and how it’s alreadyaccomplished."She was admitting to being a spy. She would have to befrom that Chinese ship but the Pink Dawn was a sleepership.They didn’t have an interface to drive one of Alan’s cherubs,as far as he knew. "What mission was that?" he asked, afraidof her, and of Glayet."To find out how much progress you've made with thoselinks. I was prepared to seduce you to a quivering blob ofjelly if I had to, but all I had to do was walk up behind you.That's fine, I don't mind a guy who's easy.""I'm not easy, I've still got my med panel," he said andbrought it up."Yeah, if you want to force yourself out of the game."He had probably said too much already, she wasn’t goingto get any more out of him. "My personification's hormonelevels were out of whack, I was just thinking about wrappingthis up and getting back to my wife when you showed up.""She left this universe before I arrived. I wouldn't come158