The transition to jump space was whisper smooth, almost unnoticeable, just as it had been when they’d arrived. Tarkus glanced over at Kaira.
“You can stop gripping the arms of the chair now,” he said.
Kaira hadn’t even realised she was. She forced herself to relax her hands.
“I wasn’t sure how smooth the transition was going to be,” she said. “How do you know which ones are going to be rough and which aren’t?”
“I don’t. Not really. I was fairly sure this one would be okay based on other people’s experiences, but there’s no guarantee we wouldn’t have hit a small patch of instability. When we’re transitioning in places people don’t normally risk travelling I generally have no idea how things will go.
“Well, that’s not completely true. I can tell that we probably won’t be ripped a
