Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

Alan was friends with Roy Hallard, who’s universe wasmainly a sandy, scrubby, ATV paradise, where he went ridingoften. He had even been allowed to ride hover-bikes in Roy’suniverse. He was hoping some day to get Roy the right totake himself and a friend riding in Alan’s universe, but so farArthur was withholding that for another ten years. He citedthe custom of purgatory.Several other people, such as Heymon, had admitted thatAlan had played a positive role during the discovery of theWetat. They admitted the motorized kayak running on beanoil fit within the bounds of three-d reality and the level oftechnology he had shown in his fake data. He still wasn’tgetting admitted to the officer’s meetings, but they had takensome of the monitors off.Ava had stayed in the Vale just about four Earth years.She kept the floater with her the whole time, until theKassikan sent messages about getting it back. She flew off init soon after that, he saw less of her since. He went over to herplace a lot, and no one would think of telling her she couldn’tride hoverbikes with him in his universe. But they weren’t anitem any more. She wasn’t really going with anyone lately,but she still spent a lot of time in his universe, most of it inthe Highlands, and now she was spending a lot of sleeps backin the Yakhan in a small marble palace off Third Canal. Hedidn’t know who drove the cherub she kept there, he thoughtit was one of the new guys.572