Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

screen, “is the Curitiba and that it means to take actionagainst us, if it hasn’t already. If it does no more than it isdoing now, it is preventing us from achieving a parking orbitin the Kuiper Belt.”If we were to light the burner now,” Heymon said, “Wewould come very close to frying them.”“I think that is a good idea,” Kelvin said, “If nothing elseit will prevent them from getting in our path where they coulddrop something on us.”“It will also make sure that if they do drop something, itwill never reach us because we will soon have less velocitythen they do.”“In that case, re-light the drive.”“If you’re sure sir.”“I’m sure,” Kelvin said.“If it is the Pink Dawn, they could interpret that as ahostile act, and we will be almost helpless against them.”“The Pink Dawn cannot host that cherub,” Kelvinrepeated. He wondered why Heymon could not understandthe significance of that point.Heymon left to supervise re-lighting the drive. If that wasthe Pink Dawn, it was far enough away that Gordon’s Lamp’sdrivewash was probably not as lethal as the leakage fromtheir ancient torch. Their logic devices had traces hundreds ofatoms wide, they would hardly be effected. Kelvin worried alittle about it, but didn’t let it paralyze him. He kept coming286