Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

never noticed a copy of Ava there.”“Ava’s as much as admitted that avatar that she left onyour base was a clone,” Elmore said. “For legal reasons shecan’t actually admit it, but I was with her one evening whenshe was trashed enough to admit there was no external testthat could tell them apart. She left us with the knowledge thatwe can never know which of the copies had actually won thebattle of the bus.”“She said the same thing to me also,” Kelvin said. Hewondered if Elmore had been into her. He would never admitit because Thom was such a close friend.“She’s a heavy bitch sometimes,” Alfred admitted.“You’re talking about Ava aren’t you?” Heymon reenteredthe room.“That data is secure?” Kelvin asked.“It’s re-labeled as fake,” Heymon said. “You can neverget it back once it’s recorded, but now it appears as ifsomeone put fake data in to implicate another ship when it isreally the Pink Dawn. We put a copy of its start-up signaturein as the real data.”“Why do we still need that charade?” Ava asked as shealso re-appeared at the meeting.“The crew would panic if they knew we were beingpursued by Curitiba.”“They should be more afraid of Pink Dawn,” Heymonsaid, “we are helpless against them.”“They can’t host that cherub.”292