Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

Tengine’s rank and education didn’t allow her the magic toput herself anywhere in his universe that she wanted, but shecould catch a tourist coach for Hazorpean from the end of thismain street. He did not know if she recognized Tellow as afellow crewman, for all Alan knew they could be conversingon a side channel outside their current personification.“So you’ve all met?” Tellow asked.“Oh yeah,” Tengine said, “I moved into the place eighthouses up the third path on the other side of the coach road.”That was outside the Vale and an excuse for not being here allthe time. Actually, with her magic permissions and Alan’ssentence, Major Tengine had to dial his front door and thenwalk the path from there, but she probably didn’t have time toplay here more than a few times a month, and if she wasusing this personification he wouldn’t send her down the paththat often.Alan would have liked to pull up a little one-sideddiagnostic screen and see who these players really were, butin his universe he was denied all data connection but thatcrystal ball on his desk.“And D’mark?” Tellow asked.“Has been staying with me since then,” Tengine said.No doubt Tellow, whoever he was, could see thru all ofthis without difficulty. Using her last name as her name wasno disguise. Her local personification was somewhatscandalous by the standards of Gordon’s Lamp but she nevercame in that to a business meeting. This personification and23