It wasn’t hard to find a place to attach the hook; all of the ships had ladder rungs or loops to latch cargo to. The long jumps between were nerve-wracking. Tak was deathly afraid of getting caught with nothing in reach and no momentum left. Which was silly; he had both a handful of tethers he could follow back to the shuttle and an air gun.
He didn’t see the sleeper pod anywhere around, and it gnawed at his gut.
The last ship proved more of a challenge, as it was drifting nearly out of range of the tether line. Tak hooked his feet around a rung, grasping the tether in both hands and using every muscle in his body to try to bring the two together. His muscles burned and the sound of his own groaning echoed around his ears, but it was useless; the ship was just too massive.
“I’ve finishe
