“Here we go,” said Tarkus.
He activated the controls before Kaira could even tense. She could immediately tell that this was going to be very different from any other transition she’d known. The mists of jump space were still all around the ship, but now they were boiling angrily. Their colour was washing from blue into reds and greens, and it felt as if the Glimmer was tumbling randomly.
And the noise… a ripping, roaring sound which battered at her ears. Amber and red warning lights multiplied across the displays in front of Tarkus. The ship was not happy. It felt as if the universe wasn’t, either.
Kaira held on tight, her teeth gritted to avoid biting her tongue. The ship continued to spin and lurch, and space around them became angrier, the reds and greens far more vivid and t
