Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

that.“I am, there’s a cesspool back that way, it’s all toolstorage along here.”They were passing many narrow and dark openingsbetween the rough blocks of these basement walls. Avacouldn’t see anything at all in them. Suddenly they wereplunged into blackness.“Shit!” Yellelle said, one of the few words Ava knew inMinoan. She didn’t need to say that the lamp had gone out.“Here hold this,” she said in Kassidorian and passed Ava thelamp by feel. It was blacker than the velvet on an Elvispainting, there was no pixel of light anywhere. She could tellYellelle was getting her flint and striker out by feel. “I nevershould have let you talk me into this.”‘This’ was sneaking her out of the temple and Knossosand back to modern times. She was giving up what little she’dearned, and taking only one change of clothes and a name tag,but she was running from the law, and there were sure to besoldiers sent after them. They were going to have to trust to acaptain Yellelle knew and it sounded like his boat was littlemore than a canoe.It took her three strikes to get the lamp lit.“We have to be more careful with this,” Ava said, “Itwould be nice if there was a glass bowl on this.”“In a thousand years there will be, but remember, yourmortal ancestors at this time were living in caves and fightingbears with spears.”458