Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

with cherubs this evening. It had been a tense day, Thom hadgiven his presentation, and been terribly distracted while hedid. He did claim the entangled states being exchanged wereinformation. But the big news was, he was given permissionto have Engineering turn the tangler beam on one of thebodies heading toward Sol and found the pulses of statechanges were coming from there also. On top of that,instrumentation had discovered another ship paralleling theircourse and Alan had to re-check the data on the blanks all thatinstrumentation was blown into.Ava did not call at the door or otherwise announce herself.She popped thru the door and danced down the steps. Heturned from the fire to see her toss her bag on the counter andhop onto the first stool. “Well hi!” he said, but wondered whathe would feed her, he only had seven mooliuks and that’s nota large feast for one.“Well it’s done,” she said.“Supper’s not, I just started it. I’m going to have to throwsome brined rock-worm in it to go with these mooliuks.” Thetwo were no more closely related than he and Ava were topeas, but the flavor and texture wasn’t that different.”“Don’t worry about me, besides, we should go out andcelebrate.”“What did you get done?” he asked.“I told Thom,” she said.“About us!” Alan was floored.“Don’t be silly. I told him I’m starting proceedings.”68