He puts the bag with toys and our luggage on the floor next to the closet, then he takes off his leather jacket and his T-shirt. I sit on my heels, wa...ting, getting more and more aroused and I moan without realizing. He hears it and says "Ha-ha we haven't even started yet, and you moan. May be I should gag you so you won't be able to talk much." And so he does. He opens the toy-bag on the floor and takes out a gagging ball. He comes behind me and puts it in my mouth, tightly. "Get up, slave.". The car-sized collectors would catch the smaller rocks, and push the larger ones, then take them to the hopper at the top of the dome. More of the asteroid’s face had cracked and broken, and a digging harvester moved in to position and began to feed.Keith Davies watched the operation from the control cabin at the top of the dome. The asteroid mining facility he manned was one of four that had been packed aboard the colony ship. The same system had been used to mine the near-Earth asteroids for. Faye collected her latte from the barista and scanned the tables of the coffee shop. Her lunch date was already at a table but hadn’t noticed Faye come in. Smiling she sauntered over and sat down without saying anything. The other woman was about tell her the seat was saved for someone, when she looked into Faye’s face she hesitated. ‘You’ve done something. You look different. ‘ Faye was at lunch with her best friend Sara. Faye didn’t really do friends. She had co-worker. She had contacts and. So we clung to each other, as friends do, to ameliorate the ache. That moment seemed to last forever. She was barely an armful, the most wonderful armful I had ever encountered. Her sweet perfume filled my nostrils and I could feel her heart beat against my chest. She was warm, and soft, and strong. She was the part of me I hadn’t known I was missing. I basked, letting her presence fill me. We broke apart then and the hurt was almost gone. It wasn’t what I wanted, but it was close. I calmed.