Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“What was it really like here in 2341?” Yellelle asked.“I was halfway home from 61 Cygni at the time. I knowmany young men were leaving their homes here to fightagainst Talstan in Turkey. Most were dirt poor and the soilwas unyeilding. There was some tourist money, EuropeanRussia still survived until 2377, and Talstan never held morethan the cities right up until the war.”“What war? The one god is waging on you?”“Between the mortals and the Angels,” Ava answered.“That provokes the wrath of god even more,” Yellellesaid. “We think it happens pretty often, silicon turning on theflesh that created it. God intervenes, but destroys the wholeplanet, just to make sure those devices don’t spread.”“I’m really starting to hope Alan is doing this and thisisn’t real.”“I’m real sure Alan’s not doing this, he hasn’t lived longenough to make up the life I’ve lived. He would have to havea source for all my memories, he wouldn’t have had time toinvent it.”“Four thousand years.”“But it’s closer to forty thousand, because we get ten daysin heaven for every one on the ground. Months are threehundred days long. Mortal years go by ten times faster thanhere.”“So I’ve been away three days and some hours from theirpoint of view?”“Right, and when I came to your ship, I was gone from521