Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

certainly never detect the entanglement at all. After decidingto be the guinea pig in the entanglement experiment, Ava’sfirst order of business when she got back to her own lab wasto schedule that backup. If there was any danger at all, andshe was pretty sure there wasn’t, she really should get thatdone. She was due anyway. Before she could get that started,Heymon called her. His greeting was, “I don’t appreciatebeing accused of a cover-up.”“I defended your reasons, but I wasn’t going to lie aboutwhat’s going on in Thom’s lab.”She wondered if Kelvin had taken this long to tellHeymon, or Heymon had waited this long to make this call.She knew it had burned Heymon when she moved in withAlan, even though they hadn’t seen each other for monthsbefore she started seeing Alan. “From here it feels like I wasstabbed in the back. You didn’t even have the courtesy to letme know you had told him.”“You didn’t let me know you were covering it up.”“So you don’t talk to Thom at all any more?”“He’s got a Shark IV,” she said.“Yeah,” he growled, “so I’ve heard. I’m sorry about thatAva, I really am.” With very little pause he changed thesubject back, “So why’d you rat me out?” he asked.“I don’t feel I ratted you out. I agreed with what you weresaying, I just let the captain know what the unsubstantiatedresults were.”“He doesn’t understand the science of it. He likes Thom370