Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

like a distorted ‘T’ or maybe the head of one of the axesAlan’s Knume cherub uses.She couldn’t even instantiate a phone here. Her firstinstinct was to get off this road and maybe out of whatevergame was playing out here. There was a brushy embankmentthat went up to some rocks. She hiked up there. The man withthe ox cart went by. He looked her over and called outsomething in the language used here. She had no idea what itreally meant, but she felt it was probably the equivalent of awolf whistle, even though her sundress was a littleconservative by local standards, at least in the chest. Still, itshowed a lot more leg than any woman here. The foursoldiers did not go by her. They stopped when they werealmost as close as the dirt track went, and the one whomarched behind them called to her.She spread her hands in bewilderment but there was nomistaking the arm signal for ‘get down here’. That meant itwas time to make a decision. From what she could tell so far,she was in three-d reality. She could bring up no panels, nordid she feel any super powers. If she was to try to run or fight,she would be relying on only what her personification coulddo on its nominal settings. She knew she would have nochance in a fight, and little chance if she fled. She had no ideawhat the land was like here, and these avatars or cherubswould know it well.She kept her fight or flight instinct under control andbegan walking down the hill, ashamed of how she was377