Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

O'Connor outranked him and he knew he had little if any realcontrol over Systems Administration, but Ava cooperatedwith him most of the time."Then you and I should talk.""About what?" he asked."International relations.""So you admit to being a Brazilian spy!" Kelvin said."Brasil is a mortal nation, we're not on that plane, you andI. The Pan Solar League and Gordon's Lamp are heavenlynations, and that is what Atlantis is today.""What?""Egypt knew us as Keftiu," she said, “and some call usMinoan.” She was slowly turning back to flesh, warm flesh.He didn't know his personification was sensitive enough torender the sensations he was getting from her flesh. He wassuddenly very conscious of having her arm in his grasp. "Wehave been in heaven somewhat longer than you," she said."You're telling me there was an advanced civilization thatcreated Angels in the Bronze Age?" He let go of her arm andwent back to his chair behind his desk, more than a littleshaken and needing something between them."Not hardly, we never even invented a motor. As far as weknow, we all got here by faith in a deity of one form oranother, not technology. Certainly not our technology.""Then you should be talking to Saint O'Connor." He wasimmediately ashamed of himself for trying to make hersomeone else’s problem, but her magic level was certainly344