Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

the crew, no one would ever question his authority to use allthe magic it required to ‘step thru’ that opening beside hisdesk, without anyone noticing him actually doing it, so hewas now standing here with them in his space with his handsdown at arms length, clasping fingertips.“So what is the crisis of faith?” Arthur asked.“That the enemy we might be really fighting, the oneThom Husband’s been discovering, might be the realheaven.”“Kelvin, The Deity is a matter of faith. We know thebodies that are destroying our people are coming from deeperspace, we do not have anything more except what we feel,what we take on faith.”“I have faith that that letter was from my mother,” Kelvinsaid. “I am not proud of much that she said, but that soundsmore like her than any computer program could come upwith. Certainly more like her than any of the speeches orstatements her owners made her read in the senate. For onething, she really is that plain,” Kelvin said. That’s why thecampaign managers had chosen her for the senate. “I’veplayed with a lot of cherubs that make brighter and moreoriginal conversation than that, and so have you,” Kelvinfinished.Arthur drew a breath, but he could see this was not thetime to get into it. Maybe that had as much to do with hiscolor as embarrassment. “I don’t think this letter was from acherub,” Arthur said. “If the expedition has any cherubs that306