Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

seat.“Oh you’re fine,” Ava said and sat where he indicated.She was caught by a plush office chair in kidskin. “This isnice, you’ve really been working on your furniture these lastfew years.”“It’s been something of a hobby, not that I’ve had muchtime.” They laughed, the hundred years between stars wasterminally boring.“You ought to try coriax fur for these,” she said, “It’sreally plush, even more than chinchilla.”“So I’ve been told,” he said with a groan. “I’m going tolive to regret letting him keep that universe.”“Why? It’s got some good stuff in it.”“Exactly,” Kelvin said.”We have little of our own cultureleft. I can’t figure how he ever made up all that music for onething.”“He’s probably got an old library from before theoccupation.”“Makes sense, I never heard anything banned. But enoughsmall talk, I called you because I want to know if the signalsfrom that starship are hacked.”“As far as I can tell, the readings are coming from thephysics of the instruments in base reality. If my diagnosticshaven’t been corrupted, and I believe they have not, and I amnot encapsulated, the instruments are seeing base reality andnot a simulated signal.”“The target is emitting electromagnetic waves into space,311