Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

personification.”“We’re worried about your safety,” Darryl said.“You just said only one in a thousand of my thoughts willbe entangled anyway. I’ll take a backup and trap back into themain store at the first sign of trouble. It should be a quicklittle test. It shouldn’t be hard to set up?” she looked at him.“No,” Thom answered. She was the ranking officer hereand she was going to get her way. He understood that, it wasno use prolonging the whining. "There's a dark body withcondensates within five minutes of us now," Thom said. "Itwill take twenty minutes to set up the beam, do you have anhour?"Darryl looked like he wanted to interrupt but she didn’tgive him a chance. "I don't have to keep my personificationin the same render-space as yours, I just have to run from theverons in this auxiliary store.""I don't think you should be in the middle of anythingwhen the beam reaches the body, and five minutes after that,there is no telling what will happen at that time.""Nothing can happen when the beam reaches the body,"Darryl interjected, “but once it does, whatever is going tohappen is inevitable.”"So we think," Thom said, though he still thoughtotherwise. “I’d still feel better if she was back here by then.”"I'll stop in when it happens anyway, just to be sure," Avasaid as she went to the door."The beam will reach the target in a half hour," he said.228