Chapter 6Javi tried to suppress yawns as he went into the galley at 06:00. He’s never liked an early morning start, but time of day didn’t really mean anything on the ship, so he supposed he’d get used to it.
“Good morning,” Estella said.
“Morning,” he said, and tried to look more awake than he felt. The fuzziness in his brain at least kept him thinking too much about the last few days. “Um, I assume we’re in hyperspace.”
“We are,” Estella said.
So he was safe. For now.
“First thing I do is get some fresh coffee on,” Estella said. “People come looking for that even before breakfast. So what I need you to do is help me get a fresh tray of mugs out and get the bean hopper filled up. Come on, I’ll show you.”
They spent the next fifteen minutes topping up the beans in the hopper, getting
