Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

understanding how those signals actually originated, therewas no way to tell.“Yo Alan,” someone called at his door. Most of the shipdid not know he had data access in his three-d realityconfinement. It was a voice he recognized but didn’t placeright away. Just in case, he got all of this minimized andhidden before he went to the door.It was Tellow. First thing to note, this is total confirmationthat Tellow is a crewman. A cherub cannot initiate an actionlike this. At the very least someone would have had to hackinto his space and be playing with it’s panel. “Hey, hope I’mnot interrupting?”“Can’t interrupt much on a Nightday,” Alan said. Hecould afford a lantern to keep his eye lit on this end. In hisuniverse there wasn’t enough metal to run wires betweenchips, only optical energy was transmitted. The natives wereso desperate for metal they went down in seven hundred feetof water with nothing but hand pumps and re-floated thecrashed shuttlecraft to scavenge it.“You got any leshin in?” Tellow asked him.“No, but I’ll pick some if you hold the lantern.”“I don’t want to put you to trouble...”“Please, I’m sedentary, I could use the circulation,” Alansaid. “So what are you cooking?”“A small karga, hardly half grown. It’s for that witchfamily down third street that’s having a birthing party.”“Yeah, I was thinking of going but afraid I might get stuck64