They begin the salvage, but there's danger lurking.
June slowly rose from a slumber full of dreams of warm bodies and passionate sex. Not quite blinking the sleep from her eyes, she felt the warm body she was pressed against, her arm draped over the still form, soft and curvy, with a faint scent of cinnamon. Her mind was still hazy from sleep; she realized that the body did not belong to Will.
June's brain snapped to the present, and it came back to her that she had been in bed with Interface and Will all night instead of hiking back to the 'Saturn's Heart'. She smiled at the thought of the lovely robot girl and their previous night's lovemaking. As June's face flushed at the memory, Interface whispered, "Good Morning, Honey. Did you sleep well?"
"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you." June apologized and gave Interface a peck on the cheek.
"It's alright, I don't sleep. I was enjoying cuddling you two so much, I couldn't tear myself away." Interface said with a big smile. "This is how the crew used to sleep every night, in a big cuddle pile. The orgies were fantastic, practically a nightly occurrence, then afterward everyone would fall asleep cuddling, basking in the afterglow. It was glorious."
A small, wistful smile stole across her face. "I miss the cuddling, and small tender moments as much as the mind-blowing sex," she said, lightly stroking June's bare shoulder.
June smiled. "You must have loved them a lot."
"I did," Interface replied. "We loved each other deeply. That's the real secret to the Bond between the crew, the Interface, and the ship. We were bonded by Love, and everything flowed from there."
"Including the energy you need for your crystalline matrix?" June asked, curious to learn more about the silver girl beside her.
"Well, yes. Including that too. It's more than just a battery charge, though; it's Life Force that energizes me, just as it does you and Sleeping Beauty here." Interface said, gesturing over her shoulder to Will, also draping an arm across the silver girl, who was beginning to stir. "Good morning, ladies," he mumbled as he moved his arm so that his hand slid down over Interface's hips and lazily rubbed one pewter ass cheek.
Interface twisted around to give Will a quick sideways kiss, then turned back to June and continued her explanation. "Organic beings, for the most part, generate their own Life Force. But the only time I generate any is when I give it away." She paused to give June a quick kiss on the neck.
"There are some people who live small lives, isolated from everyone around them, and never give so much as a drop. Those people have no idea what they are missing." Interface's fingers traced lines down June's side and back up, finding her breast and tracing light patterns around her areola and nipple.
"Small things like a comforting touch and a kiss on the cheek can be carriers for Life Force." She said as her hand moved north to stroke June's cheek, "It just happens to be that great sex is a much larger conduit." She said with a smirk and a twinkle in her eye. "But it pales in comparison to when a crew and Interface have been bonded. The connection is so full and deep, we are less a group of individuals, but more like parts of an intimate whole."
June thought about Interface's explanation, then coyly asked, "So did we help you out last night? Did we start to fill you up?"
"Oh Honey, you have no idea." Interface's expression lit up. "It was like a glass of water for someone dying of thirst, and it was beautiful. But I would need to fuck you two non-stop for years to fully charge these batteries." Interface had a look of longing on her face.
"So, you really do need a couple of hundred people to satisfy your 'energy' needs?" Will asked, finally cognizant.
Interface giggled a little and said, "It's less about the quantity of connections but more about the quality, but yes, I'm insatiable." Smirking, she paused momentarily, thinking of a way to explain. "It's like the difference between a drinking straw and a fire hose; the bandwidth is that much wider with a bonded connection." then she added, "Even if the sex is hot as fuck." she said, leaning over to give June a passionate kiss, her silver tits pressing up against June's perky pair.
Will pressed close to the kissing pair, lightly kissing the back of Interface's neck while his stiffening cock found a home nestled in between her ass cheeks. "You'll find no argument here, the sex is hot." he said while nibbling her ear, "But being awake and as active as you are right now, can you sustain it? The last thing we want is to see you get hurt on account of us." Concern for her wellbeing was clear from the tone of his voice.
"That's sweet of you, but you don't need to worry. I've grown fond of the two of you and that will be enough to sustain me as I am now," she said as the wake-up cuddle began to get more energetic; Interface simultaneously kissed June's neck and played with her nipples while grinding her hips back against the cock resting in the cleft of her ass.
"But is it enough to just survive? You should have the chance to thrive and reach your full potential. How much do you have left? Fifteen percent of your full capacity? Ten percent?" June's worry wouldn't let her leave the subject be, just like she could not leave the two silvery breasts in front of her alone.
"If you must know," she said, with a mouth full of nipple as her hand snaked down to June's moist snatch, "I'm hovering right around one point six three percent of maximum. But, oh Honey, you are keeping that steady in the most delightful manner possible."
