O Captain, My Captain by Katherine V. Forrest

Author:Katherine V. Forrest [Forrest, Katherine V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781612940526
Publisher: Bywater Books

Harper awakened disoriented, then quickly realized that she was still in the command cabin. Drake, she remembered, had placed her naked in a chair, lowering the chair’s back. Her clothing was beside her, the restraint mesh around her. She could not see that Drake was gone, but knew infallibly that she was, that she would be in her own quarters.

She donned her coverall, made her awkward, painstaking way through the eerie fluorescence to her quarters, to the galley; then she returned to the command cabin and the chair where Drake had left her.

Cloaked by the darkness, soothed by it, she removed her coverall and again fastened herself down with the restraint mesh. She stretched sensuously. So this was sensory deprivation. If the Space Service bureaucrats could see her now . . .

With no sense of time passing she gazed contentedly, languorously at the jewel-laden world swirling beyond the windows, its treasures drifting unawares into the ship’s storage containers. She wondered if she could have dreamed her memories, those impossible sensations of the night before.

Drake spoke her name from across the room. “How very lovely you look,” she added, amusement in her soft tones.

How can she possibly see me from where she is, Harper wondered, straining to make out any image of her. And then the thought passed from her as Drake reached her, bent down to unfasten the restraint. Harper floated up and into her arms.

Drake murmured, “We have only a few more hours . . . Then I must take care of my ship . . .”

Harper learned that she had not dreamed any of the sensations of the night before.

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