Jenny let go of her bag, and sure enough, it started floating as well.
“Oh wow,” she said, spinning it in the air.
A rowl-meow came from the cat carrier.
“Oh, Mr. F!” Jenny said, grabbing the cat carrier.
The poor kitty was floating in his hard case, twisting and turning, and was decidedly unhappy about it.
“I’m sorry, it’ll be okay, just give it a few more minutes.”
The cat hissed.
“Oh, he’s so mad!” Brooklyn said.
“Wouldn’t you be, if you were suddenly floating?”
“Without prior knowledge? Absolutely. Too bad we can’t explain it to him,” Brooklyn said.
“It’ll be over soon,” Jenny said, sticking her finger in the case at Mr. F
He batted her away, snarling.
“No, he is not happy,” she said as she tried to set the case back down. It wasn’t really going down, so she put her feet on it to pin it between the floor and her.
Didn’t help that she was floating too, though not too far. The seatbelts kept her basically in place.
Sort of.
“Those zero-g chairs have nothing on this,” Brooklyn said, waving her hands in the air.
She and Brooklyn started giggling.
Brooklyn looked at the row above, at Polly. “Hey, Polly.”
“Yes?” Polly looked a little sick, though she tried to hide it with a fake smile.
“Are you okay?”
“This part always gets me. I don’t like zero-g.” She put her hand over her face.
“Do you need anything?” Jenny asked. “Can we do something for you?”
Polly shook her head. “It’ll be over soon. Don’t go too far from your chair.”
Jenny played with her floating purse. Part of her wanted to unbuckle, to really feel it, but she didn’t want Mr. F to panic more. She may have some catnip for him when they get settled, or something to help him feel better.
Some passengers unhooked and started floating, bouncing off the ceiling and the chairs, but they didn’t get far before the ship twisted.
The light shifted, and Jenny turned to the window. A huge station had appeared. Maybe it was there, and they just came to it. She wasn’t sure.
But it was much larger than she expected, the closer they got.
“Whoa,” she said. “Brooklyn, look at the size of this.”
“Hell,” she said.
They both pushed to the window so they could better make it out.
