Chapter 33
“We should be able to jump soon,” Jess told the others.
No one bothered to reply. Jess wasn’t surprised. It had been yet another uneventful encounter with an Imperial fleet. What was left to say?
The only excitement came when they were in jump space. This was the fourth time the Wanderer had been forced back into real space since Jess had killed the troopers crawling outside the Wanderer’s hull. The remaining nine troopers continued moving in what seemed like random directions. Jess had no idea what they had in mind. Not that they’d had much time to move. The spaces between tar pits had shrunk right down again to no more than two or three minutes in each case.
The Wanderer nudged a thought into Jess’s mind. They could jump. He didn’t react immediately. He let the
