Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

Galilean satellites to house it. He wondered how many darkbodies they had passed on the way that were large enough tohouse it, probably a few hundred. He wondered why the PanSolar League had picked Ceres instead of a body largeenough to agree with scripture. He had no answers for any ofthat.He looked up the date when his mother had actually died,it was later that same year. It was a shame the family hadfallen apart the way it did. At least he arranged for hisbenefits to cover her, in spite of the fact that she disownedhim. It was nine months after he went into the capsule, therewas time for some operative to get that note from her.There were other scenarios that would keep him fromfighting his mother besides the letter being coerced from herwhile she was still alive. It could be the Curitiba that wassteering the impactors using the same technology that Majorhusband was discovering. His mother might be in a heaven inthe dark bodies out here, but that wasn’t what they werefighting.His mother might have been frozen and ascended herself,his benefits would have paid for it. She could have a universeexactly as she described, with cherubs for all her family andfriends, she might not have noticed that they were cherubs. Ifno one from any other universe disturbed her, she could betotally convinced she was in the heaven she believed in whileshe was really in a processing node back in the League. If shewas, she was vulnerable to the impactors that were aimed at309