hatchway
The tides from Touin were especially strong as the Pride entered jump. Made me glad I hadn't doped up - I like actually dreaming sometimes, like everyone else, but it's good to be able to monitor those things.
Geran had apparently turned her head to watch me, right before we went in. I'll have to scold her when we drop out - if I need to say something I'll say it for the recorders, and if my heart gives out from the stress, well, the only place better is in bed, right? (Awake in bed. If I'm asleep in bed and my heart gives out, I better have lost all my teeth from old age first. Gods.)
I turned my head away from the tides, wondering if I'd see a new star, or maybe a distant supernova. And I saw a door, like the hatch into Tully's friends' ship, where there shouldn't be any door. So, because I don't have half the sense the gods give a man, I went through it...