I ducked my head forward and mumbled incoherently. Techne scooted herself closer and bumped my shoulder with her metal knuckles. “Come onnnn!” She...prompted. “You grew up on a post-apocalyptic hellworld, literally being a slave for a nasty man. You may not know this, but on lots of worlds on the Chain, gals being pals means sharing sexy secrets about significant others. So. Spill. How hot is this Thale.” She crooned the name in the exact same way that I did when he’d been... Uhhhhhhh.“Real hot,”. I had to smile to myself at all the naughty memories that seeing it conjured up.I pulled back the cover, releasing tendrils of steam into the air and ratcheted the temperature up a few more degrees. I could practically feel the tension melting away already. I closed the cover, chuckling to myself, and ambled off to finish unpacking.Just then, I heard the quiet rumble of an engine, and turned to see Scott's big black sedan pull into the laneway. Although I couldn't see him yet, I imagined him. I wasn’t fond of big beefy, double wardrobe type men, but I’d been starving for a nice big cock for too long and I couldn’t have cared less what it was attached to anymore.Mistress again pulled on my leash. “You’ll be punished for that later,” she scolded.“Ba-ad kitty,” The bouncer smirked, shaking his head teasingly, which just made me want him even more. I wanted to put on the brakes, dig my heels into the red carpeted floor and tell him what this bad kitty wanted to do to him - but I was. Returning to normal space in 30 seconds... 25... 20... 15... 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.' I felt the ship lurch as it fell back into normal space and the inertia dampers came back on line."Computer commence search. Locate home system. Locate any nearby systems."'Search commencing, based on visual and spectrographic data search will take 6.4 hrs.'"Computer I am taking a rest period call when search complete or in an emergency." I go to my bunk and lay down. What a shit day; 1st, I can't get.