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“Everybody ready?” she asked. The others all gave their assent. With a decisive motion, Dev turned off both the drive and the internal artigrav field. The effect was instantaneous. One moment the floor seemed solidly beneath her, the next it shifted violently over to the left. Dev’s straps cut deeply into her as her body pulled hard to the side. Even though the others had braced themselves for the effect, they too felt the jolt as Dascham’s gravity reasserted its dominance over them. From the back of the ship came an ungodly crashing, and Dev winced. All the unsecured items in cupboards and on shelves would be toppling over to the left. Damn! Probably everything that wasn’t broken in the initial crash has broken now, she thought. Why didn’t I think to nail stuff down? But she had litt