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Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

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soul, he was much more <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g to talk to than a regularcherub.Quite a few of <strong>the</strong> crew members that came to hisuniverse didn’t want that fact to be public knowledge. Almostall of <strong>the</strong>m used <strong>the</strong>ir magic to visit parts of his universethousands of miles from him, and hopefully each o<strong>the</strong>r. Theywere able to br<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>ir own cheron allotments with <strong>the</strong>m,and use <strong>the</strong>m to run cherubs stylized as <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>habitants ofAlan's universe. There were probably some who ran Desaoften <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> clubs of <strong>the</strong> city and he knew she would neverrema<strong>in</strong> celibate. That burned him, because <strong>the</strong>y wouldn’t havethis universe to play <strong>in</strong> if it wasn’t for him.He still had cheron allotments enough to support anycasual encounters he wanted to have and knew enough about<strong>the</strong> logg<strong>in</strong>g system to prevent <strong>the</strong> rema<strong>in</strong>der of <strong>the</strong> expeditionfrom f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g out how much use he made of that. He knewColonel Kruger and Morgan Evans made <strong>the</strong> most use of hischerubs, but Morg was at least open about it and <strong>the</strong>ysometimes played with <strong>the</strong>m toge<strong>the</strong>r <strong>in</strong> this village and usedboth bedrooms <strong>in</strong> his, actually Desa's, house.By <strong>the</strong> time of Noonmeal it was pleasantly summery thisVenurat and Tellow was <strong>the</strong>re, set up under a dense wildarchwood between <strong>the</strong> public path and this bend <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> brook.There’s a rope bridge across <strong>the</strong> brook here that connects to apath that goes between a few plots on this bend of <strong>the</strong> brook,before gett<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong> rim walk that Desa’s house is on. Heused that about half <strong>the</strong> time, used <strong>the</strong> kayak or waded to get19

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