Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

understand.“So do I have this straight, you deliberately entangledyour estranged wife and our Systems Administrator with adark body?”“That’s a simplification...” Thom withered under his gaze.‘He better not be calling me simple,’ Kelvin thought, butresisted the urge to bellow that out. “But yes, sir, you couldsay that.”“Did any of the senior officers know you planned to riskthe life of our Systems Administrator with equipment thathasn’t successfully met it’s initial testing specifications?”“Lite Colonel Bancour sir.” Thom was trying to hide inthe invisible feather chair.“Major Yorkum, did you discuss this with anyone else inyour department before undertaking this obviously high-riskexperiment?”“She didn’t think there was any risk at all,” Darryl said.“We were pretty sure she was not going to detect any effect. Iespecially didn’t think we’d see an effect as soon as thetangler beam reached the dark body, without the speed-oflightdelay getting back.”He remembered Ava saying she couldn’t follow that math,now that math had taken her.“I know I directed you to get answers and told you thatyou had priority, but that didn’t mean you should have nooversight.”“Sir, we thought Lt. Colonel Bancour was the oversight,331