Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

four hours and we’ve never gone over twelve before.”“I guess I was a little slow,” she said. She must havefallen asleep for twenty of those hours. Even though it feltlike she had been in there an eternity, she knew it couldn’thave been that long objectively.“Sit up slowly, just sit there in the tub for a few momentsand adjust. You were down there awhile.”Ava wondered that this simulation allowed altered mentalstates as well as their own, maybe even better. “I didn’t knowI was in there that long, I must have fallen asleep. That trankyou gave me was pretty strong.”“It must be the substrate translation that makes you morevulnerable,” she said, “what I gave you was very mild, I wasafraid I was going to have to give you more if that wasn’tenough to calm you.”“I guess I just needed sleep then. It has been an eventfulfew weeks.”Meanwhile the woman had opened the lid on Tometahin’send of the chamber and was starting an IV. She saw Avalooking. “He get’s down pretty deep,” she said, “especially ifhe’s been under awhile.”“When will he wake up?” Ava asked.“Oh, in a day or two,” she said. “The way I understand it,he’s outside his body re-wiring himself while we think he’s ina coma. Whatever he does in there, we have to put a lot ofnutrients into him to keep his levels up.”“This is very serious for him, why does he do it?”513