Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“She’s never played tricks on us...” Kelvin started to say.“What do you call making a clone to stay on BiologyBase?“She had a legitimate reason for it, and she recovered it.”“She says,” Heymon pointed out.“What have you got against Ava?” Kelvin asked. Heneeded to believe in Ava, he didn’t have any choice. He hadto keep on hoping she would never know the power she reallyhad over them. “Did she say ‘no’ to you at some point?”Heymon kept his demeanor under control, but Kelvin waspretty sure he used his med panel to keep the blush fromshowing on his face. “That has never come up, I’m a marriedman as you know.” Kelvin only snorted. Both the Krugersused cherubs to excess, in his opinion anyway. “You’re asingle man, what has she told you?”Kelvin had never given a sexual affair with Ava asecond’s thought. “That has never come up.”Heymon only smirked. “We have no way to tell if thatship really exists, when you get right down to it. When youget right down to it, we have no way to tell if the materialuniverse really exists. We could all be a simulation in God’smind.”“It’s even worse than that,” Kelvin said. “I read a story,fiction for sure, but it could happen. Anyway, there was abillion year old race of creatures called Pronna that ran anunlimited number of simulated universes in their minds. Theykept humans as pets, most humans in the universe were their283