Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

mortals of the time. Just like Alan’s sentence. In this age itwas certainly possible to produce cameras too small for her tosee, but there were no cameras set up to get all the best shots,the lighting wasn’t right for television, so at best there wouldbe some kind of ‘minutes of the meeting’ recorded.She had to say something, she’d fall back on the academicmeeting protocol. “I’m glad to be here, I’m glad you can meetwith me.”“Please forgive my English,” he said, “you speak it like anative.”“I am, the only other language I know is Kassidorian.”“Kassidorian? I’m sure I don’t speak it at all.”“That’s good,” she said, and was genuinely relieved. Ofcourse Alan would have known that would be a dead giveawaythat he was behind this.“Why is that good?” he asked.“That is evidence that this whole universe isn’t a creationof one of our crewmen.”He had too many questions on his face now. He looked toBuduani, who looked to Yellelle. Yellelle answered. “In theirheaven they each get to make up their own universe. One oftheir crewmen illegally modified their substrate andsubstituted his universe for a planet they were supposed to beexploring.”“Actually he just redecorated the data from the planet wewere exploring and copied that as his universe. He was ouronly mortal and he was too scared to actually go...”490