Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

gone six days.”“Yeah, but Alan helped you guys out, he did an update onthe 20 th and I did one just before I came over so we never fellbehind. I’m sorry I was gone so long, it felt longer.”“But what happened?”“I was encapsulated, busted down to three-d reality. But Inow know how to make a test to determine if I wasencapsulated by some power outside the ship, or inside.”“But what did you experience during the days you weregone?” Kelvin asked.“It was pretty intense, but what scenes were projected onmy senses during that time really aren’t important if we don’tknow where they came from. Once you have meencapsulated, anyone who can work a scene builder canrender an environment that I can’t penetrate, even moreabstract than what was presented to me.”“Was there a presentation?”“It could be nothing more than an historical drama videogame, the rendering and immersion and sensorysynchronization were fine but it is nothing we should takeseriously until after we run those tests I set Thom and Darryland Tung to carrying out.”“We have no one in the crew named Tung,” Kelvin said.“He’s an old friend of Thom’s living in a cryoslicer inwhat’s left of China.”“Sounds desperate.”“I guess he is,” Ava said, “but we have no other eyes and357