Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

waited for the meeting to start, asked, “So I understand yourcomet is propelled by a Bussard reactor?”“Yes,” she answered, but didn’t know what else to say.“Too bad he couldn’t have been with us today.”“So you are that Daedelus?” she asked. He looked likeone of the original Minoans, not like someone who wouldhave worked for the Chinese in the late 21 st century.“No,” he replied, “I was the chief scientist to the palace atKnossos during the time you visited. The closest we came toan interstellar drive was a small glider that I declared unholyafter my son was killed on it.”“That myth...”“Like all, has some basis in fact. The glider was made oflight cloth and sticks, not bird feathers, but we did use waxfor glue and it did come unstuck, but it was three and a halfthousand years before someone built a better one.”“And your son was killed?”“Yes, it turned him against progress. In the afterlife heremains in the echo of 1648bc.”“It has it’s appeal,” Ava said.“I understand that was where you landed,” Wolfgang said,being close enough to hear their conversation. “How did youever arrange that?”“By accident,” Ava said, “I was running from a veronstore that we subjected to the tangler beam. We didn’t think Iwould even be able to notice the entanglement and we wouldhave to build instruments to further our studies,” She noticed494