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Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

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now that I know she was <strong>the</strong>re, I can get a hook onto herveron grant record.” She was busy with a screen no one elsecould see for a few more seconds. “Yes, that record exists, asecond soul <strong>in</strong> Alan’s universe on <strong>the</strong> 20 th .”“Colonel Bancour, we need to know who that <strong>in</strong>dividualwas,” Colonel Samrova said.“It was an external request, but it’s League, unless Brasilhas cracked our private keys. A remote soul couldn’t haveworked over this distance, not without a whole soul downloadand none took place.”“Do we have an antenna report on that external request?”Heymon asked Ava, but was look<strong>in</strong>g at Glayet who claimedall channels were clear.Ava worked some more on screens no one else could see.“Uh,” she gulped, “Yes we do. We should have been alarmedfor this but I never would have suspected.”“Cut <strong>the</strong> suspense, Ms. Bancour,” <strong>the</strong> capta<strong>in</strong> said. Hewas beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g to feel like <strong>the</strong> only one <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> dark. Heymon’sface said he already knew.“She came thru <strong>the</strong> data tap on Thom’s entangledcondensate,” Ava told him.He wasn’t <strong>the</strong> only one surprised. Her husband Thom hadcaused her no end of grief with his obsession with signalshere <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> dark matter. If what Thom claimed was true, thosesignals were fast enough to run a remote soul over <strong>the</strong>sedistances. Heymon was pretty sure that myth had been bustedthree centuries ago but Kelv<strong>in</strong> couldn’t follow <strong>the</strong> proof. “So246

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