Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“Because he can,” she said. “He is the only mind who’sneurons are allocated to the right bodies to interact with yoursubstrate.”It was late afternoon by the time she got back, but Yellellesaid there was still time to hit the beach. It was only a fewsteps from their home, and nudity was almost as common asin the Yakhan of Alan’s world. The beach was not as pretty ashers, and was made of rounded pebbles instead of soft sand,but it was still cooling after the heat of the day and not socrowded that she felt self conscious. She got to lay in the surfuntil the heat of the day was soaked out of her, then walkedthe spume with Yellelle, aiming to go to the nearest point andback.“Not so easy getting in now is it?” Yellelle asked.“What was it like before the safeguards?”“It was still pretty hard. Nothing made sense at firstbecause I didn’t know that there was a SystemsAdministrator, I just thought that as a soul, the god of yoursubstrate would grab me. It wasn’t til I found my way intothat cherub that Tometahin could put me down. It’s justincredible that he can control his thoughts well enough towiggle the right atoms in the right dark bodies to transfer datainto your detectors.”“I think there has to be something more to it than that.”“It’s all done with re-enforcement training, the neuronsthemselves learn it.”514