Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“Someone visited Alan’s quarters Friday night withoutproper clearance.”‘Oh Jesus, help me now,’ Kelvin preyed to himself.Elmore had complained that he suspected Ava was seeingsomeone. The last thing he wanted was to have that blow upwhen they were passing thru enemy territory, and that couldbe anywhere out here. Even though they were mortal, Brasilwas an interstellar power, and Kelvin was very aware that hisship was now two hundred years out of date, and the last shipto come this way had been Brazilian, the advanced bussardmortal seedship Curitiba. If this security breach was aBrazilian tap, he had to know about it. "Did your people pickup anything from outside?" he asked his colonel of security.Glayet consulted her devices, audio channels using aheadset wrapped around the base of her iron-grey flat-top."No sir, nothing but six dimensional noise on all bands."Perhaps the best thing for him to do was hand the ball toAva and see how she wanted to run with it. “ColonelBancour, do your records show that?” he asked.She stared into space and poked at the air. Her eyes staredthru them all for a few seconds as she consulted her one-sidedscreens. She was fun to watch, he should discipline her forthe clothing she wore on duty, but it was all perfectly legal. Itwas something about the Caribbean breeze that seemed tofollow her everywhere and press her robes against glimpsesof her body. “I have the record here,” she said. “When I firstmet her I thought she was a cherub until she winked out, but245