Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

are definitely in a post-technological state.”“Where the dark matter can continue harvesting them,”the bishop interrupted.“I wonder if religious devotion is what stimulates it toharvest the souls in the first place,” Glayet said.“We were competing with it,” Alfred said, “we Angels,we simulates. I would speculate that our cryo-slicingtechnique has taken the brain, and therefore the soul, beforetheir decay bacteria could spread thruout the brain and get aread out.”“And if their bacteria get to it first, can we still get a goodread-out of the soul?” the bishop asked. He directed hisquestion to the captain, the captain looked to her, she lookedto Alfred who said, “No, the synaptic network and synapseweights are destroyed in the decay process. The informationcopying can only happen once by the laws we think we areseeing.” Alfred looked back to the bishop and said, “Therewill be a grey area once some decay occurs. We will get somedata, but it would be up to theology to tell us whether wehave resurrected a soul and if so, how damaged.”The bishop turned to Ava and said, “I would ask you if itwas drawing a soul’s resources from your system.”“I’ve seen drooling vegetables draw more than...” shestopped herself in time, "...many of the crew.”Elmore mused, “I’m surprised they’ve let that slicersurvive.”“It’s an immune response,” Ava said, as she had been told.565