Beyond The Awakening: Can't take the zero-G from the mercenary

Maya browses a holographic screen while curled up upside down in her bunk

Maya was hardly tall by Rumreign's standards, but she was large, in a way that belied an origin on a planet at least a little more massive than Rumreign. Moreover, she carried herself with a certain guardedness which, when accompanied by a perpetual scowl, made it clear that any amount of whimsy was out of the question.

Which made for a lot of double takes when the rest of the crew would routinely find her sometimes crammed into tiny cubbies, sometimes upside down, sometimes both! throughout the blimp's cabin. Evidently, even if she remembered nothing of her previous life in interstellar space, the habits of confined spaces and inconsistent non-inertial reference frames had not left her.

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