Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

was far too risque also, but I would have kept that in the mainlog. I am remiss in not knowing that decision was made.""It may have been a costly one.""We can question Alan," Ava suggested."We will," Kelvin said, "but I'm sure that will be less thanuseless. We have no way of verifying anything he says, weknow he willfully faked our whole data stream.10:54am Sat. Jan. 28, 2384On a Saturday Kelvin didn't need to appear for dutyunless called, but he liked being in space as it appearedaround them. This was the only place he ever felt like he wasreally in a starship. When he had been young, in the dog daysof the Nigerian occupation, the stars had been lights in thesky. A half-American camp brat had no interest in them. Buthis mother had been a Senator from the late great state ofOhio, his father an officer in the occupation in charge ofkeeping order in the senate chamber.He first saw the stars after his father was e-vac'd back toNigeria when Washington was burned again. He and hismother slept in many a field under the stars on the way toMississippi, the only state south of the Ohio that wasaccepting half-Americans. It was cold on those nights, andthere was no power in the rural counties in America by thattime.249