Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

not just into our perception?”“To the limits of my technology to detect it.”“You won’t REALLY be pinned down will you?” Kelvinsaid.“Only God knows better,” she said, “but only He is sure.”“OK, OK. The ship is real.”“We can accept that the signals are real,” Ava said, “butwe know nothing other than those signals have beengenerated.”“What else could generate them? The power involved inthat drive...”“If it is spreading in all directions, but if the signal isgenerated by something small and local and sent in a tightbeam toward us, not much energy is used.”“But it is the whole spectrum?” Kelvin questioned.“And?”“So we could be chasing a probe with a recording.”“A little more sophisticated than that, with a fewrecordings, tracking corrections.”“Who would do...” he trailed off. Ava said nothing, justsat there with her long silky hair gently blowing in theCaribbean breeze, waiting for him to think up something.“Why would they...” She still sat watching him. “It doesn’tmake any sense.”“The only part of that I can answer was the ‘how’ theycan do that, who and why I can’t imagine.”He was silent. He tried not to stare at her across the table.312