Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“It’s all about whatever she left installed and running overthere.”“Standard remote instrumentation stuff,” Elmore said,staying at the user interface level. “But what control does Avahave? I mean over this expedition?”“She is the Systems Administrator, only she can loadpeople in and out of the veron store.”“But the captain...”“Would never know that he never got his next timeslice,”Alan said.6:42pm Tue. Mar. 6, 2384“It’s so majestic the way it gets dark in your universe,”Ava said. She was well into what she liked the most about hisuniverse, the country blue be brewed. She was on her thirdcup of it since she dropped by after work. “It is so beautifulhere that it is no punishment.”“If I could get the time off I could get to Hazorpean andback, but why bother if I can’t even run a few decentcherubs?”“I’m the only soul who dares visit you here?”“You’re the one I care about,” Alan answered. The othersmight have been entertaining but they were such minorplayers on the expedition that Alan wouldn’t get any relieffrom his sentence. Two of the other three women who had82