Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

tasted great.Before she started her Nightday she wanted to sit and petonce more. The jungle of the city was very steamy this darkand the thirty seventh floor is nowhere near the top of thisstructure, but it is high enough that neighboring islands canbe seen as ghostly green light under the fronds. The plenitudeof lanterns said it was Nightday. He was now late for duty.He had to start thinking about that. His connection to theexpedition was an Earth year away. He could remain with thischerub as long as he wanted to play with it. If it was run bysomeone of the expedition, they might even step in to animateits personification from veron space when they had the time.It came with quite a nice residence, but he liked the home inthe Vale better.He wondered what would happen when he came upmissing? He imagined the captain would call Ava in to trackhim down. She would probably lead them to all the places hecould have gotten to by now. He wondered if she would becalled to explain why she couldn’t find him. ‘It’s a big worldhe’s got, he could have run to a floater and gotten past us. Hecould have altered his personification and be hiding amongthe cherubs.’ He hoped she wasn’t called to task about it.“You never got my name,” the cherub said. That wasstandard cherub speak for ‘I can see you’re growing boredwith me, so if you want to call up these settings again...’ “It’sYellelle,” she said, pronounced as three syllables with rolledl’s. It was a name he’d never used in his universe before.41