Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

forget that he participated in it willingly at the end. It wasn’treally rape if he participated was it? "Thanks for breaking inlike that," he managed to say, though it was difficult. Even athis virtual age, he was going to NEED a cherub before heslept. "Who knows what would have happened." He tookanother gasp. "What did she do to me anyway?""Well, for one thing she got to your hormone throttle rightunder your panel, if you looked on your med panel it wouldlook like where you set it, but the throttle was off, you wereon a hundred percent.""Woah," he said. "No wonder it was so hard to fight her,she has a very sexy personification.""So I've been told," Ava said. There was a moment ofsilence so Ava asked, "What did she want?""She tried to get me to surrender the ship and crew. Shesaid something about the war we're engaged in as being a warbetween two different substrates, and they are on a differentsubstrate."She knew a lot about Alan's hack," he continued, "I thinkwe are dealing with Alan again myself. I wouldn't besurprised if all the signals Thom has received from his gear issomething Alan has hacked into the instrumentation layer.""I'll try and verify that. I've been watching him prettyclosely lately. If the test we need to make shows Thom iswrong, I’ll need to take a much closer look at that.""What if Thom's right?" the captain asked, meaningThom's belief in cryogenic intelligence in these ice crystals.355