Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“You’re a simulation,” Alan told her, but she felt so realwith his arms were around her. With a step more life than anyof the cherubs around.“So are you,” she said, looking up at him with that sameelfish-cute face she’d always had. “We all are, ever since youcopied me into here.”“Ava will find you, she still keeps an eye on my cheronspace.”“She won’t find me there,” she said. She left his arms tounhitch the keda. It was already tonguing at the harness.“Then where?” Alan asked.“Where I used to be. Blisscry was playing all aroundZhlindu Tech for two decades, so I took a few systemscourses.” Alan went to the other side and helped her undo theharness. He understood what she meant, she was running inveron space again. He could tell because there was reallysomeone there now, someone who was tired from traveling,glad to be home and a little annoyed with this keda but tryingto make the best of it. This keda could see and smell thepasture, and the fact that there was a companion there. Itwaved a brief ‘thanks’ in one-eye as it scampered off.“When I heard about that rock,” she said, getting up fromthe harness, “I knew I had to come back here.”She could only mean the hearings that were going on.There was a movement, lead by Delos, to end his sentence tothree-d reality and make him a light major in systems, but theprice was to make him give up his universe. The symbolism574