Acceptable delay

"How is it going?" Claudy asked while gripping with all his strength at the belts that secured him on his seat. 

The traumatic experience of flying at great speeds, something that I hardly even noticed due to the advancement of my rank and the perks that came with it, was enough to fully break the man. 

I could guess that back on the solid ground, he would be back to his full power of a supreme that went through the ordeals of the starlight plain. But up in the sky, with nothing but the thin floor of the Maglev separating him from said ground?

'Human fears are quite weird, aren't they?'

Just like Isera proved by jumping out of the moving Maglev and easily landing down without any issue, Claudy didn't really have anything to fear from falling from our current height. What's more, we weren't even moving right now, so there should be fewer reasons for him to act out the way he did…