Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

understand the odds when his whole civilization was the sizeof a bacterium to it. He had feared encountering aliens,warlike creatures in fast ships with powerful weapons. Hewould have had a chance against those, what chance did hehave against this? He had known in his heart all along thatThom was right, because Thom was convinced he was right.Kelvin didn’t want to believe it could be all one creature.After too long a silence he asked, “And what if yourexperiment shows that souls do not get transmitted to the darkmatter?”“Then it calls into question everything I was told,” Avasaid. “I was encapsulated by someone, Alan or a Brazilianagent, some other member of the crew, I don’t know. It couldstill be an entity in the dark matter, it could be an entity in ourown logic. I was being fed a presentation in that case, and wecan’t be sure of any of the things I learned.”361