Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

our operative who has visited the energy regime substrate.This lady,” he indicated with his hand, “Ava Bancour, is ourvisitor from the energy regime.”“Ah,” he said, clearly not as interested. Pavel and Boriswere polite however, and took the chairs beside Daedelus.”"Are you life or afterlife?" Learned Pavel asked."Afterlife," she replied."But the realm of light is the realm of mortals," Borissaid. "Yet you claim that is your home.""She is from the single hurtling particle," LearnedMabaka added, “Not the ones god targets that orbit close toSol.”"I admit that," Ava told him, "but that particle is a vesselfrom the souls you are trying to exterminate who live on theasteroids you are targeting.""We are doing no such thing, Learned Bancour," Maroclosoothed. "You must understand we can do almost nothing toaffect the physical world. Our nation’s entire energy budget isonly a few hundred thousand photons per minute.""The course corrections to those impactors takes energy,"Ava said."That is not us, Learned Bancour, that is what we aretrying to tell you. We've come as far as to begin translatingthe word 'substrate' from your vocabulary.”"Perhaps we should begin this," Pyotr said, finallyworking his way into a seat next to Boris."Please do," Ava said.498