Chapter 41
Dash stared at the displays in disbelief for a few seconds. Jess had done it. He’d thrown them into jump space.
“You’ve killed us,” Dash whispered.
He felt strangely calm. After such a long time fighting to carve out somewhere safe, then keep it that way, certain death carried an almost hypnotic quality. There was nothing he could do, nothing he could say. He turned to Sal and smiled, taking her hands in his.
“As last sights go, you definitely rate highly.”
Sal smiled back, but there was something to the smile… a sense of mischievousness Dash couldn’t understand. Jess spoke before Dash could follow the thought up.
“Fifteen seconds… and twenty.”
They dropped back into real space. Many people, most even, couldn’t detect the transition. Dash had always been able to.
