22 A JUNIOR OFFICER came with a set of dry clothes for me, and she showed me to a tiny bathroom to put them on. I was still feeling a bit wonky, and the lack of gravity definitely didn’t help. Neither did the bland meal which sat like a brick in my stomach. They must have been semi-prepared for me because they had clothing that was both in my size and in gamra colours. Thayu came in to help me and told me to hurry up because we were about to enter a larger ship’s hold and people were waiting for me. By the time I’d changed, the shuttle was in the dock, and the hold door was open. A junior officer waited outside to accompany us wherever we needed to go. Another military docking hall, another ship, and no sign of a second ship carrying Veyada and Sheydu. And everyone seemed in a hurry, s

