Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

did."That rang about as true as a leather gong, but he wasn'tgoing to argue about it. "Well, you put on a very good act forthem the last month. It had me fooled.""I'm sorry, I hope you didn't hook up with Greta orImogene and forget me." She was walking into the house, shedidn't need a bag of clothes, they were probably alreadyhanging in the closet.The floater was rising and turning toward the mouth ofthe vale. There was one floater park in Hazorpean, less thanan hour away for as sleek a creature as that Kassikan floater."I was getting close to playing with a cherub," he admitted ashe glanced up at it before stepping inside."It's late evening where I'm from, but as soon as I getrested, I hope we can pick up close to where we left off." Shewent up the steps to the kitchen/office level and slid into oneof the stools at the counter. He followed, but didn't want tosay anything about that, he could scarcely remember wherethey left off. "What do you want for lunch?" he asked, to givehimself time to think about how he felt about this. He couldn'tsay he had gotten over her, but he was not still in the midst oftheir affair as she suddenly appeared to be. He needed time towork back into this."Whatever," she said, "I'm more worried about what hisattorney said about my universe than any socio/psychologicalvalue a lunch image will do for me.” She checked avirtual screen, she usually had a few in her field of view and94