Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“Major Tengine is in the process of raping me,” Alan said,“and might be rather hard to lose at the moment. And just tolet you know, there’s been someone in the crew pretending tobe a cook in my universe. I don’t know who it is, but I thinkhe knows.”“I’ll find out who that is,” Ava said. “What name does heuse?”“Tellow.”“Good, I’ll track him down. And don’t you dare have toomuch fun with Major Tendine.”“Even she can make things difficult for me,” Alan said.Ava gave him an evil grin but didn’t say anything. She wasgoing to wait til Alan was gone to look up Tellow. “I’m sorry,I’d much rather be with you...”“Go, I understand, we can’t stand a scandal. I know justwhat you mean and thanks for the warning.”But he was very worried that this was going to be the endof their relationship.Alan went back to Desa’s and tried very hard not to havetoo much fun with Imogene, but even in a virtual universestuck in three-d reality, yaag and booze can take you placesyou wouldn’t have gone. He knew Ava could put in adiagnostic tap to see, hear, smell and taste everything each ofthem did. At least Ava could turn the diagnostic tap off whenshe’d had enough, he was sentenced to three-d reality anddidn’t have that option.27