Bridging Infinity by Jonathan Strahan

Author:Jonathan Strahan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd

THEIR TIME BURNED away. They had to do some fast work on Explorer in the Logistics module. Daphne stabilized the low-burn modes in the reactor while Apollo got their streamlines out of the mag nozzle all neatly aligned.

Other work, too. In the Longsleep module they finished bringing up another crew member, Zhai, who got right into handling the comm deck. Zhai was small, fast, sharp – and thrilled to be in on an adventure none of them had ever contemplated.

Beth knew she needed time with Cliff before they flew Explorer. She had helped him come up out of the long dark cold of decades-long sleep and into her warming arms. She had massaged his sore self, rubbed skin with aroma-rich lotions, and soothed away the panic that raced across his face, coming up out of the troubled dreams that the cold kindled. His fear came in fluttering eyelids, vagrant jitters in his face. Then his eyes focused, squinted, and she saw him back with her again, a slow smile.

Ten hours before they launched, they worked off their tension together. This mission was certainly dangerous but they both hungered to get out of the ship, to do. Best to be relaxed, then.

They finished their biozone work in the hydroponics swamp, rich in lichen and ripe greens. Then the buzzing insect ranch, ants and crawlers and space-bred protein bugs. Done, they went straight to the Sundlaug they had reserved for two hours. Sundlaug was an Icelandic name for a hot water public pool, which somehow became the term for spherical pools in zero-g developed across many solar system habitats.

They hurried to the zero-g center of Sunseeker. Long before they had learned that the hydroponics and animal farms were not enough. There was no nature in a starship, however lean and elegant and deft it was, but for the hydroponics and this: so the closest strong natural feeling you got you was an orgasm.

Sunseeker’s Spherical Pool was ornate in its lightweight way. Beside the big bubble was a wallscreen. By accessing their external cameras they could both keep a lazy sort of watch, floating within the outer surface-tension skin and seeing the universe pass in review. He plunged into the ten-meter diameter, exciting the fluorescent microbes whose sprinkles of amber glow tracked the contained currents. She arrowed past him. The shimmering warmth coiled around her in a way water under grav could not. She hung suspended and kissed Cliff’s foot as he passed, grinning madly. Kick, stroke, and she was back in air barely in time, gasping. The sphere shuddered and flexed with their swimming, spraying some droplets of its own across the view of distant Glory, a pale cool dot.

Hanging there in an ocean of night, waves lapping over them at the pool’s edge, they made love. Each time with him lately, since they came out of the cold, she felt a new depth, an unexpected flavoring. They converged, his head between her thighs, the zero gee making every angle easily realized amid the moist waves and salt musk.

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