Stuffing the Stow-Away (Naughty Sci Fi Menage Romance Story)(Older Men Younger Woman First Time Lusty Encounter)(Science Fiction Forbidden Pregnancy Tale)(Hot, Alpha Discipline in Outer Space) by Sheila C. Martian Page A

ever stranded far from the warmth of the sun. She
gripped the railing and pulled herself up farther step by step only
to find the aching weakness spreading up her arms and through her
body.
     
    Still, she climbed.
     
    She spiraled up past
the side of the sky owned by Neptune and the twisting storms that
crawled over its surface. As she moved toward the darker side of the
tower again, Eva saw the dull, white smear of the sun rise from
behind Neptune’s edge. The light looked cold and lost, but she
knew it held heat for those that found a way to get closer. Even
though she knew the sun and the inner planets were her goal, she had
to leave the sun behind for a while to make it up the spiral to
attempt her desperate plan.
     
    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