Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

to my government!”“Sir, you already know your government is no more,whether you mean Mortal China or Heavenly. If you worrythat you might be a clone, we can back you out...”“Now you would murder me!?”“It’s your choice,” Ava told him, trying to keep the smirkoff her face. Thom was still looking on in disbelief andprobably hadn’t loaded the Chinese language for himself yet.“Help me up,” he said, “where am I? This place looks likea secret laboratory in some old horror movie.”“Close,” she said. “You are in Thom Husband’sentanglement lab on the Pan Solar League starship Gordon’sLamp.”“Gordon’s Lamp?” He said, “The one that got duped at 61Cygni?”She made a face, but said, “We’re going to have to getyou a universe and such as soon as we can.”“How did I get here?”“You were teleported as an entangled fifth ordercondensate.”“I only speak Han Chinese,” he said.“There are quantum mechanics scholars in China,” shesaid, “They know those words.”“Tell me what you’ve done in real words,” the Chinamandemanded.“We beamed you up from the war zone,” Thom told him.“OK, now I understand, and thank you, it was hell down553