Her muscles burned for oxygen as much as her soul yearned for the green of Earth. She felt lactic acid eat at the inside of her body giving cheap, but hard-earned energy. Despite heaving for air and not getting as much as she needed, Eva spoke out loud. “They say there is water everywhere and it falls from the sky. You can catch it in your mouth. It is where we were meant to be.”
She wanted it and she was going to take it.
When Eva finally reached the top of the platform, the rejuvenated atmosphere blasted her in the face from the service vents. The sudden addition of nitrogen rich air laced with a percentage of oxygen filled her with energy, but made her feel even more dizzy. She dropped to her knees and nearly fell under the railing to plummet back to the city below her.
As the color returned to the world and the ringing was replaced by the rumbling roar of thruster engines set to maintain contact with the loading spokes of the tower, workers and bots crossed the platform loading and unloading cargo. The entire structure shook under her hard enough to make the world blur as a fuel line disconnected from one of the ships inside the spoke.
“That means about to depart,” Eva said.
She stood and slipped through personnel passing in both directions. Now the only trick was trying to find a ship heading toward the sun instead of deeper into space. If she snuck onboard a mining ship plunging out into the Ort cloud, she might not see the sun again for years. If she climbed onto one of the automated vessels, she would find out there was no life support the hard way. Her mummified body would not return for generations.
She huffed. “Anything is better than here.”
Eva paused at a cruiser. One of the men held a data board as he scanned crates. She peeked over his shoulder and saw that it was bound for Mars. That was close, but she would have to avoid getting caught during the voyage, sneak off, and find her way on another ship. This cruiser was smaller too, so she would likely get caught. Even if she didn’t, moving around to steal food would be tricky.
The man looked up from the board and whipped his head around at Eva. She stepped away and walked around the crates bound for Mars. The worker watched her for every step. She saw him staring at her out of the corner of her eye, but kept walking without looking back.
“Good work, Eva.” She whispered to herself. “You got caught before you even snuck onto the ship.”
She made her way around the outer curve of the platform. The next three vessels were boxy, mining ships that would be pushing the outer edge of the solar system looking for isotopes in the ice and rock beyond the planets. She shivered as she thought about the slow, cold death that would await her, if she stowed away on those.
The platform buffeted from the solar winds passing against the field around the city. The trouble in the streets below probably wouldn’t notice, but up on this spire kilometers above the surface, Eva felt the whole structure quake and rock. Stabilizer jets kicked in on the tower underneath them and countered the effect before they were all shaken off. Eva suspected the jets were more about protecting the ships from damage than losing the people.
They didn’t even really know she was there to give her any attention yet, but she had to move fast.
***
The next cruiser was massive. One misfire of its thrusters and its mass could rip the whole platform off like the petal off a flower. She had only seen flowers in pictures and videos, but she heard that Earth was covered in them with fields of color as far as the eye could see.
The side of the big cruiser read The Greater Destiny in letters faded from red to pinkish from years of dust through the solar system. The crates being loaded up the ramps were stamped with EARTH in bright red. This was literally her sign, she thought.
Eva licked her lips and took three deep breaths. At first she did not think her feet were going to move at all, but she finally stepped away from her spot and slipped between the stacks of towering crates.
She weaved her way closer to the open hatch where workers remote guided hover pallets loaded almost too high to fit through the gap.
A worker stepped out into her path looking down at a data board clutched in both his hands. As his eyes came up, Eva dodged between the rows and slinked up through another space.
She showed her teeth and said, “This is never going to work.”
She could see empty pallets hovering down the ramp on the left with the full pallets floating up into the ship’s cargo bay on the right with barely any room to spare. Eva knew one side was called port and one side was called starboard, but she didn’t know which was which.
This was left over from sailors on Earth that floated boats on seas of liquid water. Close enough to the sun for liquid water? She couldn’t imagine it. She used to walk out to the edge of the Triton city bands to look at the oceans of nitrogen pulsing and rolling under a volatile crust. Eva imagined the seas of water would be more beautiful. People swam in them naked with droplets gleaming on their flesh in the warmth of a sun too bright to look directly toward.
Eva wanted to feel warmth on her naked skin dosed with the water of ocean waves. Her hands traced over her jumper that hugged her narrow hips and the modest, but plump curve of her ass. Eva slid her hands back up her tight stomach and cupped her breasts. Other girls that did more than talk had much larger breasts. Hers were smaller, but they filled her hands as she teased her nipples with her slender fingers.
A voice barked out something around the corner from her, but she couldn’t make out the words in the cold fear that rushed through her body. Eva threw her back into the crates. It was louder than she would have liked. In the silence, she imagined the workers searching for the sound. The voice resumed calling out numbers farther down the row away from her.
Eva took a deep breath, heaving her small chest. She decided it was now or never. She ran up through the rows as she saw another hover pallet rise. She ran to the right and walked beside it as it traveled up the ramp. There was not much room between her and a drop off to the city kilometers below her. She moved her feet one in front of the other like balancing on a beam. The pallet hesitated and changed tone in its hum for a moment. She expected it to shift and bump her off into the air to plummet to her death. The pallet held steady and she followed along side it into the cargo bay.
The pallet dropped and slid out from under the crates. They scooted closer to the wall and for one terrified moment she thought they were going to slide flush crushing her into paste. She tried to run sideways, but the crates pressed her back and it was too late. They stopped short of smashing her, but if she wasn’t so tiny framed, she might have been a goner.
Eva struggled sideways until she reached the edge of the stack of crates and could look out across the massive cargo bay. The materials extended all the way across the belly of the vessel. Crewmembers walked along catwalks nearer the ceiling and the upper decks.
The tiny space between the crates and the wall might guard her from discovery, but if the cargo shifted during launch, she could be squashed. If she moved to find another spot, she could be found from any direction.
She had to try.
***
Eva darted out from the cover of the crates and put her back to the next stack. She was exposed now. Crewmembers crossed on the catwalk above her. If they looked down, they would see her.
Eva moved anyway and passed three stacks before ducking between for cover again. She heard voices passing by, but didn’t see them. They must have been at least one row over.
She backed to the wall and prepared to spring off once the voices were past, but then she realized her feet weren’t touching the floor anymore. Her perspective shifted and she thought the ship was sideways. Eva expected all the cargo to come crashing down on top of her and the crew to flip off the sideways catwalks. The crates stayed on the floor and crew walked like nothing had changed.
She stood up on the wall and looked up at the stacks above her head. Eva stepped back onto the floor and the ship shifted back to normal. She smiled and jumped
onto the wall crawling through the bay behind the cover of the stacks.
“Everything has artificial gravity here. I could get used to this place.”
***
Eva managed to avoid detection for three days of the voyage ducking between storage areas to hide and sleep. Once she had to run up onto the ceiling and duck down a corridor behind a lighting unit as crewmen passed by walking along one of the walls. Getting used to the rules where anything could be a floor was taking time.
Her spots for left over food turned out to be empty, so she had to explore deeper into the ship on day four of the voyage. She heard voices approaching and ducked down two passages before she realized that she did not know where she was.
The corridor was more narrow and dark. She walked along the floor toward a light that appeared to be coming from an open office.
Footsteps approached behind her and she heard a conversation around the corner. Eva took the chance and entered the office across the hall. The door closed behind her automatically making her believe it might have been left open by accident.
She listened at the door for the footsteps and conversation to pass, but then her eyes caught a screen with a picture of a beach looking from out over a wooden railing. The wood railing looked grayed and worn by the weather. The sunlight in the picture looked so warm.
She stepped away from the door and closer to the picture as she imagined the ship taking her closer to that beach, that sunlight, and that ocean with every passing moment. She just had to stay hidden.
The corner of the screen read Key West. Eva wondered if that was the name of the place in the picture or if it was a direction description.
She reached out and touched the screen. The picture vanished and the screen started beeping.
A voice from the adjoining room said, “Hold on. Let me see what that is, Commander Solid.”
“No problem, Tom.”
Eva heard footsteps and she slid down to her knees across the room beside a counter. The footsteps entered the office where she hid. A man with curly blond hair and a lab coat touched the screen and the beeping stopped. He tapped through a couple items and then laid the screen down on its face. He started messing with items next to the screen that Eva could not see from her hiding spot.
The blond man in the coat said, “Any more trouble with your knee, Able?”
A voice from behind Eva said, “What’s that, Doctor?”
Eva turned and saw a muscular, light-skinned black man sitting on a reclined exam table. He was tall and his cock hung soft, but long where she could see it. He was looking toward the door the blond doctor had used instead of where Eva was hiding. His head was shaved and Eva wanted to touch it – his head, his chest, and everything else.
The doctor in the office said, “I said, how is your knee, Commander Solid?”
Commander Able Solid extended his right leg which showed off more of his muscle. “It’s fine, Dr. Draft. Good as new.”
Doctor Tom Draft said, “Good. I’ll give you clearance and you can get dressed again.”
Eva was disappointed.
“You don’t think I should go back to the bridge buck naked?” Able asked.
“The ladies would probably appreciate it,” Tom said.
Able snorted. “Yeah, I’ll be the sexiest commander ever court-martialed and ejected into space by the captain.”
“Here’s one now,” Tom said.
Eva saw Able’s eyes narrow as he stared through the glass between the exam room and the office. Able said, “What?”
Doctor Tom Draft grabbed Eva by her arm and pulled her to her feet. Able was looking right at her as he sat naked on the table. She wanted to run, but Tom had her arm and walked her into the room.
“You peeping at the goods, crewman?” Able asked without making an effort to hide himself. She thought he might actually be growing bigger as he stared at her. She was afraid, but she wanted to touch it.
“No, sir.” Eva breathed.
“She’s not crew,” Tom said.
“What?”
Tom nodded at Able. “I know everyone onboard. I examined them all. She is not crew. She must be a stow away from Triton.”
Able tilted his head. “We left four days ago. Where has she been hiding?”
“It’s a big ship,” Eva said.
“It’s a small brig,” Able said and licked his lips. “And there are a bunch of prison outposts between here and Earth. They’ll feed you and give you a warm place to sleep.”
“Not always warm,” Tom said.
Eva shook her head. “No, please, I’ll do anything. I don’t want to be cold or in the dark anymore. I want to feel the warm sun on Earth.”
“You want us to hide you for a month and a half?” Able laughed. “The captain will find you even if we were both working together.”
“And we have no reason to do that,” Tom said.
Eva swallowed. She was good at keeping men talking, but she sensed this was going to require more than that this time. She reached down and rubbed the front of the doctor’s uniform behind her. Able looked down at her hand and back up at her. He was growing hard and longer now. “What you doing there?”
“My name is Eva. I want to see Earth and I’ll do anything to get there. Please, help me. I’ll earn my passage any way I can. Please.” She reached out with the arm the doctor still held, but Tom didn’t stop her. She wrapped her hand around Able’s cock and stroked out its entire length. He did not stop her.
“You think you can handle all of that?” Able asked.
***
She ran her fingertips on and around the head of his cock. She felt Tom growing hard behind her.
“I’m sure. You do something for me and I do something for you,” she said.
“Both of us?” Tom asked.
She had never done anything like that before. “Yes, of course.”
Tom tilted his head. “What do you think, Commander?”
Able smiled. “It’s hard to think clearly with a strange woman stroking my cock.”
“I’m game if you are, Commander.”
“Show me what you’ve got, Eva,” Able said.
She took three deep breaths and slid her hand down to his balls. She wanted to taste him. Without another word, she bent over and took him into her mouth. Her tongue teased the groove at the end of his cock. She pushed down farther and licked around the head. When he groaned, she felt encouraged and pushed down deeper. She rubbed her tongue on the underside of his shaft inside her mouth.
Able said, “Yes.”
She slid back off a few inches then plunged down deeper. His hips started bucking into her face and she increased her rhythm until she nearly swallowed his length before sliding back up.
Eva almost forgot about Tom behind her until she felt the doctor’s hands on her ass. He spread her open inside her jumper. Tom squeezed her cheeks and then spread her again.
She went down on Able until she gagged because Tom distracted her. She pulled off and spit on Able’s cock. She stroked his slick cock and then devoured him again.
“Oh, that’s good,” Able said. “I’ll hide you in my damn cabin, if you keep sucking me like that.”
Eva smiled and then gagged again. She spit, stroked her saliva all around his shaft, and then took him back into her mouth.
Tom slid his hands inside her clothes. His hands were warm and she enjoyed his touch. He clawed at her ass and she moaned over Able’s cock. Tom pulled the leg of her jumper aside exposing her ass and pussy. She bent over further and arched her back. Tom dragged his thumbs through her lips stirring her wetness and fiery sensations. He slipped a thumb inside her and back out. She missed him inside her once he was gone, but then she felt his tongue on her clit.
She shook as she moaned.
Able hissed and said, “Easy, girl, no teeth.”
She brought her lips back over her teeth and pumped up and down on Able’s cock some more as Tom ran his tongue up and down through her pussy. He slid up into
her crack and tongued at her ass. Her eyes widened and she concentrated on not using her teeth on Able in her surprise.
She had never been touched like that before. Eva wondered if everyone had sex like this. If they didn’t, she thought, they really should. Tom licked her until she could barely feel her legs anymore.
Tom stood up and Eva wanted to push his face back down into her pussy and her ass. He reached over her to slide the straps of the jumper off her shoulders. His hardness pressed against her ass as he undressed her. He pulled her clothes down past her chest. Able reached around where she still sucked him and fondled one of her breasts. She reached up and stroked his balls gently between her fingers in response.
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