‘Will do, Commander. Over and out,’ Micca flicked her com unit switch to off, called up her map of Docking Sector 7 and plotted her course.
Thirty minutes later she was docked, signed in and had permission to dock for 48 hours. She really didn’t need that long but it was always better to be on the safe side – just in case! Now she had to check her mail. She tapped her code into her com unit and waited for the stream of mail to appear. She glanced quickly through the spam for the…ah there it was ‘Passenger Transportation –Instructions.’ She clicked the mail open and began to read. Good, she thought, all was still as planned. She would take her two passengers on board tomorrow evening so she had plenty of time to prepare. She was just about to sign out of mail when a message caught her eye…it was from Llyr Sommers!
‘So how is the sexiest Thrust Captain this side of God’s Own Planet?’ she read, ‘I heard through the data-vine you were planning a visit. Give me a call.’ Godammit! She thought, just what I need! But she couldn’t disguise the fact that secretly she was thrilled that Llyr was here. Why had he contacted her now? He would quiz her, get all her plans from her and laugh at her but she had to admit that the thought of seeing him again made her pulse beat faster.
She and Llyr had been in flight school together. She was the only woman to take the Thrust Ship qualification and Llyr was one of the few students who hadn’t tried to get into her flysuit! Oh, he had teased and humiliated her like the rest of them about the fact that she was ‘a little girl in a man’s world’ but she could take it from him some how – he seemed to tease her in a more gentle way. She had always been attracted to his dark good looks and his confident manner but she had made a decision not to get involved with any of the other flight students and had stuck to it. Now, however, she had been in business for herself for nearly two years while the rest of her peers were struggling up the corporate ladders, had stacked up quite a few credits in the bank and felt much more confident about herself. She would call Llyr – she was really interested to find out what he was doing here. Last she had heard he was captain of the Outmine Com. Ship
Scarlet Dragon
and was somewhere in the asteroid mines off Bieto. She shook her head with a laugh and switched of the com unit and all the other unessential functions of her ship.
She stepped out of her dirty, stained flysuit and into the shower. While washing she examined herself in the full length mirror. Did Llyr really think she was sexy or was he just teasing her again? She twisted round to see her back and ass – well not too bad, still not sagging. She turned to face the mirror and ran her hands over her breasts and stomach – her breasts were full and her stomach rounded – voluptuous was the word that came to mind. She was petite, only 5ft2, which accounted for some of her timidity, but it also, conversely, made her all the more determined to be a strong independent woman. She may be little but she was no girl! She laughed again as she turned side on and struck a pouting nudie girl pose. Godammit she had to stop being so self conscious, she was a sexy woman! Months of being cooped up alone in Celestial Copus wearing nothing but her unflattering flysuit had turned her into a frump. Well, tonight the bars of Glia5 Sector 7 were in for a surprise!
After her shower Micca made all the final preparations for the trip she was about to make. All the supplies were aboard and she had made the rather cramped living quarters of Celestial Copus as welcoming as possible. This was the first time she had taken passengers on board. She normally took supplies and equipment to the mines and exploration sites of Glia5’s furthest out moons. She enjoyed her solitary work but she was getting bored with the routine and there was more and more work coming up for longer haul transportations to Bieto and Marda and she wanted to explore. To do that she needed a new ship, however, as
