[Training] make sure you can back it up

JACK

"She's good, Bassian." Jack waves off the hulking man, who raises an eyebrow at the captain over his shoulder before stepping aside to allow Nova on board with a soft nod of acceptance. "No big brother in tow today?" This he directs to the girl in question, Jack smirking around the cigarette he places between his lips, slipping his matchbook out of his back pocket to light it.

The Ark is abuzz with the sort of activity that suggests she's going somewherequite soon, which is true; his ship has been bobbing around in port for long enough, and especially with things heating up void-wise, he feels as though he ought to get the wind in her sails before the next crisis. Their destination this time is the Greatwood, though it'll be a few days yet before she sets off.

More than enough time for some father-daughter bonding, evidently.

Shaking out the match and inhaling deeply on the cigarette, he raises an eyebrow expectantly at Nova. Not having dealt with her as often as her siblings, he nevertheless knows she'd not come to see him just for the hell of it.

you're the last of a dying breed; write our names in the wet concrete
I wonder if your therapist knows everything about me

Code stolen from Queen Sky