Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

that he knew, but after his private meeting he had comearound and Thom's experiments were getting a lot moreattention."This whole effect is pretty theoretical," Thom said. "Aforth order condensate is like us building a virtual processorthat runs simulates inside it, and in their simulated, simulatedrealm they build a virtual processor and run souls in that.""Yeah, in its way, but there's math behind it and it'seffecting the instruments.""There are other phenomenon that can effectinstruments," Thom said."Like hackers," Pete said, remembering how Alan hadeveryone and everything fooled for years."Yeah," Thom said, and wondered once again if hisinstrumentation could be corrupt. The only person he couldgo to about that was Ava, and he had just bought a lawyer toseek advice on protecting this lab from Ava. What could alawyer do to protect him from Ava? About as much as hecould do to protect them from a snowflake they couldn'tdodge. All he had asked for in the divorce is to make sure hislab is not harmed in any way."You're thinking of something," Pete said."Ava.""Mm.""We're getting a divorce, she could corrupt this gear.""Oh it's possible, but she'd have to learn a lot about it tofool us both, yeah she knows the logic in the substrate it all200