8
I WENT back to reading and playing games and staring, bored, into nothingness. Sometimes I caught Thayu looking at me, with a worried expression on her face, and I worried, too. I hadn’t mentioned anything about the trouble I’d had getting Taysha to release her contract. I just couldn’t bring myself to do so, especially not with our lack of privacy. But she wasn’t stupid and knew something bothered me.
When action finally happened, five days later, it came suddenly.
I was attempting to concentrate enough to work on a report when Nicha, in the other hammock, said, “Am I imagining it or did the engine just turn on?”
No, he didn’t imagine it, because there was the slightest vibration in the walls that hadn’t been there before, and not much later, a faint measure of gravity returned. Exc
