Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

knew that you were done forgiving me. I know you still holdmy past indiscretions against me, I know you'll always besuspicious unless I'm beside you in that lab day and night.""That's all I wanted.""I know," she said, "and maybe if I had grown towomanhood in a mortal body I'd be well adjusted enough tobe able to acquiesce to a man's need to own the womb.""I wanted you there for your mind, not your womb. Icould use your intelligence and your system skills to help ussucceed.""Nice try, I guess I'll submit this as written. That's yourcopy." She cut ahead of him to the front door, set it toTheology. She didn't turn back to look at him while he closedit so he could set it for the captain's public space, where hewas to give the presentation. He couldn't step thru right away,he had to go back to the bathroom and check hispersonification once more to try and convince himself thosewounds didn't show.The captain's public space was still space as it could beseen by the ship's sensors. Years ago the snowflakes had beenwhipping by, but they had shed enough velocity that theynow went by sedately. Today he had the gravity set to normal,Sol was almost dead ahead and by far the brightest object inview. The snowflakes and other bodies were enhanced in theimage as shown by their detectors, the stars shown at nearlytheir natural levels. While in motion, all the dark matter, from184