Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

Glayet dropped off the line, but as the connection brokehe could hear her yelling at Alan. They had never gottenalong well, and she had objected to letting him keep hisuniverse right from the start. If he hadn’t made the promise toAlan without thinking, he would have listened to her andBishop Rendellyn.“So what are we going to learn from this test you want torun?” he asked. They had settled back in his public space as itlooked off duty, one percent gravity and Sol below.“Whether dead souls can be copied into the dark matter.”“And what does that tell us?”“If they can, that means there really is a form of life orafterlife in these dark bodies. That would indicate that I wasencapsulated by some agent in those dark bodies, and my firstguess is the one who was attacking you. But that also impliesthat what I learned while encapsulated is likely to be true.”“What did you learn?”She took a deep breath, sighed it out. “Let me try to justsum it up in a short version OK?”“Yes.”“We could be fighting the immune response of a singleorganism millions of cubic light-years in extent.”Kelvin didn’t really care about the technology of it, thatsentence was enough to tell him the true extent of what theywere fighting. Its technology might be nothing more thanunintelligible words to him, but as a soldier, he could360