Axiom by Gentry Race

Author:Gentry Race [Race, Gentry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gentrifiction
Published: 2019-12-11T22:00:00+00:00

15

Jantzen felt out of place in this new world as he explored the Upper Cruft. His mouth still hurt like hell after the procedure, and his lips still needed to adjust to the new set of false teeth. Despite being the middle class of the station, he still felt like he was treated differently. Is this because of skin color?

His skin seemed to be a darker shade on Annulus due to the station only receiving fifty percent of the sunlight reflected from Earth. The Earthshine made for a surreal dark setting Jantzen wasn’t used to. Everything was lit up by artificial neon lights to compensate. He wondered if anyone had mental fatigue due to the low lighting conditions.

Jantzen walked along the many connecting bridgeways that extended across above the Lower Dregs. He could smell the funk of human sweat wafting up from below. He was on his way to meet a fixer. Elise had set him up with one of the best, promising that Jantzen would be able to jump the line to be Naturalized; a task that could take some Mods years to do.

Jantzen arrived at the bright neon sign that read MoTH Bar. Here, he was supposed to order a tiki style drink called ‘the jerk.’ Jantzen wasn’t sure what was supposed to happen after that, but he didn’t care. The people there were his kind of people, his kind of scene. The bar was probably full of past bunk mates he knew from jail.

As he walked into an empty bar, a crewman ordered a band of workers around in the back of what seemed to be an active remodeling. Mirror sheathes were all around as the crewmen ripped and broke the mirrors as if to repair the seedy bar. Jantzen took a seat at the empty bar and waved, signaling to the bartender.

“We’re closed for remodeling,” the bartender said as he washed a set of glasses with his four arms, two being cyber-Modded.

“All I want is a jerk,” Jantzen said.

The bartender smiled and finished cleaning the glassware. “Let me get that for you.” He whipped up a frothy drink, vapor rolling off the top.

The door opened, casting a green light from the outside neon sign as a silhouette of a shapely woman appeared. Jantzen’s eyes followed the cyber Modded contours up from the ankles to a human waist and immediately recognized who it was. Jess.

“Well, well. Ya neva called,” Jess said in her almost Jersey accent.

“Jess…” Jantzen awkwardly answered.

“It’s all right, sweetie. That wasn’t my first rodeo,” Jess said, winking at him before taking a seat next to him. She looked at the bartender. “I’ll take a jerk.”

Jantzen felt awkward about not trying to contact her since he had been on Annulus. They exchanged info back on the freighter after she saved his loot, but he didn’t think he would run into her again.

“You getting a jerk too, eh?” Jantzen asked.

“Already found one,” Jess quipped.

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