Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

central location, right next to the front door. He had his quiltaround him because it was getting pretty cool. He didn’t havea fire going yet, he was just about to decide whether to do thatfirst, or pee. Yup, that’s how strict his sentence was.“Alan, I haven’t got much time,” Ava’s voice called fromoutside. He didn’t know what to do now. He hadn’t brushedhis teeth yet and had sort of drowned his sorrows with a smallcask the evening before and went to bed when he noticedhimself staring into the galaxy in black darkness. She wasgoing to just come back like nothing had happened at all.“Are you even up? That clock app you gave me says it shouldbe Nightday now. He reached up the stairs with his foot onthe second one and opened the door. The quilt slipped whenhe did so and the boner he woke up with was looking right ather. “Ever the savage,” she said and breezed down the steps,“but that’s good.” She grabbed his wrist on the way by andheaded for the bedroom.Ava was a healthy and deliberate woman but Alan, three-dreality sentence and all, made sure his arm didn’t budge anymore than the railpost, which was rooted into mortared stone.“I have to pee first, and brush my teeth.”“Comb your hair too,” she said. “But I only have half anhour.”“It’s nice to see you again too,” Alan called from thebathroom. In no other universe in all of Gordon’s Lampwould one have to do this. He would have appeared beforeher as he wished to present himself, not as the base simulation54