Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

ack in ‘84. If Ava knew, she never told. He used it sparingly,hardly ever more than once a day. He was still tied to this oneportal and desk-eye as the only contact with the expedition.His whole world was still stuck in three-d reality with nomagic at all. He would remain forever the young man stuckon this farm that he still called Desa’s. He couldn’t make itthe monetary success he dreamed of with only himself towork it, but he had enough to get by, and his expedition salaryallowed him to buy whatever he wanted that this three-dreality trap could provide. He grew what he could and grazedthe rest of the land, there was a nice hedge of queen’s rikegrowing up between the garden and the field now. Hewondered if he could just sell that field in this simulation. Buthe didn’t want to sell the beach, it was his only play area. Itwas also still stuck in three-d reality, but it was a fun place toplay with cherubs, and a few female members of the crewwho came by now and then.There were also the regular cherubs of this neighborhoodfor company, he still didn’t know who’s they were, but he stillhad fun with them. He liked to pretend they all had soulsbehind them. In reality, probably none of them did. He knewthey all ran in cheron space, but if there was a soul behind itrunning them, interacting via cherub was at least as close abond with another as email.They had stopped only briefly at Sol, the outer Jovianstasis point had become a meeting ground for survivors of all570