Tanager's Flight: Quiet Ship

A chapter from the work in progress

As always, feel free to chime in if you see errata or wildly errant plot points.

A Quiet Ship 

Jem stood in the cargo hold, listening. The Tanager was quieter than she had been in years, and he was missing them already. He’d grown accustomed to voices distantly chattering, a dog’s occasional bark, or whuffles of greeting, and it seemed like a dead silenc…