Chapter 29
They’d only been in jump space for a couple of minutes when Ali cried out.
“Jess! The troopers are moving!”
Jess accessed the sensors. The troopers were moving fast. They were already several rooms from where they’d started. They paused by a wall, fixing something to it. Almost immediately a shaped charge blew a hole through into an area of the ship Jess had sealed off from them. There wasn’t anything sensitive in it, but it allowed them to bypass the maze of passageways he’d formed.
“Jess, throw them around,” Ali shouted.
“Damn,” Jess replied. “I can’t. Not while we’re in jump space. Hold on.”
He sent the Wanderer back into real space, making the transition hard. Then he started to throw the Wanderer through a series of vicious turns and tumbles. The troopers r
