Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

in.“‘If we are real,’ ‘if we are real,’ do we all have to prefaceeverything with that?”“We could be hacked by Brazilian Intelligence like thecaptain thinks. Curitiba is two centuries ahead of us intechnology, they could certainly hack our electronics. Thenthere’s whatever this is in the dark matter, it could be hackingin and animating the Yellelle cherub.”“How would it know enough about us to make up anatural-seeming cherub?”“Television isn’t that old when it gets here, they can learnall they need from that. Just about every line Yellelle everused has been in a TV show.”“Have you noticed he’s not himself lately?” Heymonasked about the captain.“Since he got that letter from his mother. He began to takethe idea of something in the dark matter seriously when hegot that.”“We can’t let him think that.”“I can control the system software, but I cannot controlwhat’s in the minds that run in my system.”“You shouldn’t have told him.”“Do you think he’s that feeble?” Ava said.“Yes I think he is. He’s a military man but he’s afraid tofight...”“He was a quartermaster,” Ava said.“It’s still more military than I had as a mortal.”373