Emma Straub’s Time travel book makes the millennial midlife crisis fun<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\u201cOkay, there we go!\u201d Miramir yelled, following her statement with a whoop of triumph. The ship jolted once, and then the steady shaking stopped. Through the forward viewports, the stars were now completely still.<\/p>\n
Despite himself, despite their situation, Dathan found himself smil\u00ading. He couldn\u2019t help it. His wife was a genius and he loved her. He didn\u2019t know where she got it from, but she was a natural, like it was ge\u00adnetic. She could fly anything, had been\u2014and still was\u2014a self-taught engineer and inventor. Tinkering, Miramir called it, as though it were nothing, as though she didn\u2019t realize just how special her talents were. In the years that he had known her, Dathan had often asked where this gift had come from, but Miramir would just shrug and say her grand\u00admother was a wonderful woman. Dathan knew that to be true\u2014he had met her, several times, before Miramir gave up her life in the twilight forest of Hyperkarn to travel with Dathan. But then . . . where had her grandmother learned it all?<\/p>\n
Dathan wanted to know, but over time he\u2019d learned not to ask any further. Miramir missed her grandmother. She missed her home.<\/p>\n
That was something else Dathan had tried to understand. To be homesick, to miss something that you could never return to\u2014that was something unknown to him. Oh sure, he could understand it. And yes, he felt something for his days on Hyperkarn, even the years on Jakku, but he wasn\u2019t sure it was the same. Neither of those places had been truly home.<\/p>\n
He did have a home, a place he could legitimately say he came from. It was a place he revisited a lot, in dreams.<\/p>\n
Dreams . . . and nightmares.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat will hold for a while,\u201d said Miramir, releasing the yoke and reaching up to flick a series of heavy switches in the angled panel above the pilot\u2019s position. \u201cI\u2019ve rerouted reserve power into the starboard im\u00adpulse stabilizer, and then pushed the angle of the field way beyond point-seven, but that\u2019s fine because\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
She stopped as Dathan dropped into the copilot\u2019s seat and looked at her, one eyebrow raised.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what any of that means,\u201d he said, \u201cexcept that we\u2019re safe, right?\u201d<\/p>\n
Miramir sat back, her slight form dwarfed by the pilot\u2019s seat. She grinned and nodded.<\/p>\n
Dathan felt his own grin growing. Miramir\u2019s happiness\u2014her relief\u2014was infectious. Maybe they would get out of this after all.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe stabilizers will hold until the hyperdrive resets,\u201d said Miramir. \u201cThe motivator overheats every time we make a jump, but it\u2019s still work\u00ading for the moment. We should be good for another couple of jumps.\u201d She paused, then wrinkled her nose. \u201cBut we do need to find another ship. Which means . . .\u201d She gestured at the viewports, to the infinite emptiness that was Wild Space.<\/p>\n
Dathan nodded. \u201cWhich means heading back to the Outer Rim.\u201d<\/p>\n
At that, Miramir unclipped her seat restraints and headed over to Rey. Kneeling by the navigator\u2019s seat, she gently lifted the headphones off her daughter\u2019s head, then unclipped the seat restraints. As soon as she was freed, Rey sprang out of the seat and tackled her mother, arms and legs wrapped around her, her head buried in her chest. Rey was perhaps small for a six-year-old, but Miramir didn\u2019t mind her daugh\u00adter\u2019s desire for closeness, knowing the girl would soon grow out of it. Miramir turned and sank gently into the navigator\u2019s seat, still cradling Rey, and kicked the seat around so she was facing Dathan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know it\u2019s dangerous,\u201d said Miramir, \u201cbut this ship was in Plutt\u2019s scrap heap for a reason. We\u2019ve managed one long jump, and look what happened. It\u2019ll be worse each time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dathan sighed and gave his wife a nod. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a choice,\u201d he said. \u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miramir lowered her face to Rey\u2019s hair, burying her nose in the bru\u00adnette plait, her eyes focused somewhere on the floor.<\/p>\n
Dathan knew that look. He\u2019d seen it plenty of times over the last two days. It pained him to see Miramir like this. His wife, his love, the smart\u00adest and most beautiful and best person he had ever met. Certainly the most capable, far better at most things that he was, no matter how hard he tried.<\/p>\n
And he knew something else, too.<\/p>\n
This was all his fault.<\/p>\n
But there would be time for that later. Right now, they were out of options, and only one path was open to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey,\u201d said Dathan. He forced the smile back onto his face.<\/p>\n
Miramir looked up but didn\u2019t speak.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey, come on, now,\u201d said Dathan.<\/p>\n
Miramir looked at him, her big eyes beginning to water.<\/p>\n
\u201cMum, I\u2019m hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miramir looked down at Rey, and\u2014<\/p>\n
She laughed. Dathan grinned, then found himself unable to stop himself from joining in.<\/p>\n
Rey unraveled herself from her mother\u2019s arms and turned to look at her dad.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou guys are silly,\u201d she said. And then she pointed at the front view\u00adport. \u201cWho\u2019s that?\u201d<\/p>\n
No sooner had the child spoken than an alarm sounded. Dathan toggled a switch to clear it, then turned around to look at what Rey had spotted. The alarm began to sound again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is that?\u201d asked Miramir.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got company,\u201d said Dathan, watching as in the distance three stars moved and began growing in size.<\/p>\n
Three ships, flying in formation.<\/p>\n
Coming right for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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