Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“The substrate did, the OS did. The souls in that heavenare not supposed to be able to tell that the material worldexists.”“So we’re at war with an OS?” Kelvin asked.“We need to stop thinking of it as a war,” Ava said. “Ithink we are generating something more like an immuneresponse than a conscious treatment program. We have a newscale of creature to contend with in the universe, creatures aquarter billion cubic light years in volume.”There was hubbub for awhile. She worked her wayaround behind some equipment, stepping over webs andropes of cables to get closer to where Thom was looking atthe screens. Darryl was gone again. She thought Kelvin wastrying to work his way across the lab towards them, butArthur stopped him. More people were arriving, Victoria,Morg and Glenelle, Bishop Rendellyn with Adele, you hardlyever saw them together any more. Ava thought this lab wasnot going to work with this many people in it. She brought upthe scene generator and found the source to this lab. Sheadded fifteen feet of floor space next to the instruments thatwere showing the results. While she was at it she put in anaisle thru the gear that let her get there.Heymon eventually got them quieted down andorganized. Ava was standing next to Thom, facing the crowdwhile Thom sat on a stool hunched over his main screen. Avagave them a wrap up: “When I was away those few days, I559