Q: To the Rescue
Calista had almost regretted sending her daughter Kensa to the King's station, when she had realized how much faster the tiny ship that her son Brendan had insisted on using actually was.
She had stayed with her youngest child because she had thought that she would be able to protect Brendan more reliably than his sister could, especially after the girl had foolishly insisted that the Beyonders she'd been chasing probably hadn't actually been trying to hurt her. But from this far away, even if Brendan got into a fight, she and her own ship's crew wouldn't be able to do anything.
She was extremely irritated by the gap of more than an hour between them that had been created before they began to decelerate. She wondered how much damage he was doing to himself, and to his friend, by travelling for hours right at the edge of the acceleration limits that humans could endure on a sustained basis. More than half of her irritation was at herself though.