Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

completely in his hands and we have to hope he is lenientwith us."3:13am. Thus. May 7, 2384Ava had her alarm set for any news from Tung, no matterwhat time of the day it occurred. She was at Alan’s. Going tobed very late by ship’s time had been an early Noonsleephere, and she’d had only a couple hours of it when there wasa chime. She stumbled to her lab without getting dressed, shewas already out of the room before Alan woke up andmumbled something. She bumped her head on the top ofAlan’s gateway, she was going to change that part of hissentence if she had to re-code this door by hand.From her lab, she saw it was the comms from Tung, andthat she would have to go to Thom’s lab to really investigate.She could put thru a remote interface, and technically have noreason to wake Thom. She didn’t bother. She opened his backdoor and tiptoed slowly into the lab. He was asleep on his cot.It was a pretty lavish cot, one that supported him in whateverarrangement he contorted into. She remembered waking up asthe staging material for many of those positions back whenthey used to share a home bed.He heard her, his head popped up.“There’s a response from Tung,” she told him, “it looks548