Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

and door frames. She was lead into a room right on theharbor, across from one of three small boats.By now Ava had noticed that all the fittings and blades toeverything were bronze. Normally she wouldn’t have cared,but that meant this was a simulation of something before theiron age. That meant this probably wasn’t Greece or Rome orthe pre-Columbian Caribbean. The people were all lightskinned with dark hair, of medium height and many were notwell groomed or dressed. These people only lived in Europeand the Middle East during the Bronze Age. The climateseemed too warm for northern Europe, but then she thoughtof the fact that this has to be a simulation, meaning it could beanything anyone wanted to imagine.A man in a flashier uniform was inside the building, alongwith a woman in a very lavish skirt with bronze girdle and avery well-tailored open front bodice displaying an impressivepair of jugs. Ava noticed that she had bracelets resemblingsnakes wrapped around each wrist. They listened to the firstsoldier’s story. The woman asked the other three something,and they all gave a one word answer. She should have writtenit down, it was probably the word for ‘yes’ in this language.She wondered if she was going to be expected to figure thelanguage out on her own.The older officer inspected her naked left wrist. He askedher some questions, or maybe he was asking her the samequestion in several other languages.“I’m really sorry, I have no idea what you’re asking,” she380