Aslan at the estate
Yuri will hobnob with the regular passengers from time to time during the trip, bring up the subject of art if none of them do, and then explain that the odd departure was his fault. He'd heard a rumor that the Bennington estate had an interesting piece of art that he was interested in... if it didn't cost too much. He'd simply mistimed the round trip, and he wasn't going to make it back in time for the scheduled departure time. Well, he and the rest of the crew. Some of them wanted do a bit of sight-seeing, while Grouch had gone along as his bodyguard, though he tried to tell him it wasn't need.
No, he didn't find the art he was looking for. Turned out that it wasn't the Bennington Estate any more. Someone else had bought it. After old man Bennington had died, the entire contents of the estate, including the flowers and the estate itself, had been auctioned off. Maybe if he came back that way, he'd try to look up the auction and see who bought the painting and for how much. That way, he'd know if he could even afford it.
That was his story and he was sticking to it.
In between hobnobbing with the regular passengers, he'd spend a bit of time with the Aslan. There was no reason for the regular passengers to go into the cargo bay, and the Aslan had the run of the cargo bay such as it was, so there really wasn't any reason for them to go into the rest of the ship. He and Bannacor tried to keep it that way by entertaining the Aslan as best they could, asking about themselves, where they were going, what they were going to do... not trying to get any secrets out of them, and Yuri was also learning Aslan. His version of entertainment was screwing up the language now and then, like using the old trope 'you have a big yellow pencil' when he was trying to compliment one of them.
In that way, the week in Jump-space passed quickly enough, hopefully without any incidents.