Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

the kitchen and put shutters for the winter, but our kitchenwas no bigger, even when there were six of us.”“How much of the population is this poor?” Ava asked.“In my time, most, in the time we left, about a third ofthem.”“We’re in a different time?”“Heaven spreads by new paths that arise at the end oftime. The paths remain and the turnings we’ve taken havebrought us to about 1500bc. The sailor I know is in 1398bc,so we have to wander the hills for the remainder of the day tofind our way there.”“How does that work?” Ava said, “that there are pathsthru time? And how do you know where to go?”“I’ve been here before, I was in heaven for nearly fivehundred years, living with Budani and Dimini in a cabin a lotlike this, before we ever started our journey to the future.”“No, I mean how can a different path take you to othertimes?”“It’s not really different times, it’s different echos, copiesof the land are created for each generation or so, dependingon how many die. We are all at the same time, but the area welive in may have been created at an earlier time. Technologyfrom a later time won’t work in an area that was createdbefore it was invented. It’s the reason for the negativecurvature of space in heaven. We can’t see it, but we arereally in a multidimensional honeycomb of about three milesradius. It warps thru at least two more dimensions and closes464