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A thin scratching noise penetrated the subdued humming chatter and almost imperceptible drone of massive engines that throbbed through the expanse of the bar. A small golden amber flame sprang to life between the fingers of a tall, dour looking feline of non-descript breed. He touched the dancing teardrop of flame to the end of a blunt tube of dried, rolled leaves and inhaled deeply. The rotund, scar-faced bartender wrinkled his nose and aimed a small air ionizer more directly at the tall, broad shouldered feline, watching the curls of blue-silver smoke drift lazily across the scarred metal bar top, "Zeft wept Riyo I wish you wouldn't smoke those damn things in here. It's a barbaric habit."

"And here we are in a galaxy of barbaric habits, so why don't you go stick your head out the nearest 'lock and gripe at the percentage of said galaxy that's not in this room, eh Zibo?"

The slouched feline raised an eye the color of scintillating glacial melt-water in increments to the heavy canine bartender, taking a pull off the stub of cheroot pinched between his lanky fingers, his other eye, black as the void, a perfect sphere of smooth onyx polymer busily scanning the rest of the bar of its own accord, "I come in here, tired from hauling shit for the fuck-brained Mags in the admin tower throw you a wad of jack, don't try to skim you with Council cred for a watery drink and the last time I shot anyone was at least 10 years ago, yet you chew my ass for having a smoke."

The scowling canine muttered under his breath, shuffling away from the lanky feline to mop the scarred bar top. Riyo watched him retreat with a smirk, flicking his spent match into a tray near his elbow, glancing over his shoulder to where his black eye was already gazing, not that anyone would notice, where a squat reptilian looking alien was rasping quietly into a breathing mask over its snout, a faintly green tinged mist escaping around the edge with each respiration. The feline grunted, "Besides, it smells better than whatever he's gassing on..."

The smooth scaled being issued a louder rasp and shuffled off to a farther barstool, making Riyo shrug and swallow another mouthful of his drink, "And glad it wasn't flammable anyway..."

The bartender massaged the spout on his temple that was beginning to throb as he gazed venomously at the dark furred feline, "Riyo, would you shut your gob... The only reason I even tolerate your flapping face is because I knew your sire."

"I don't need to hear about dear old pop's cock Zebo. You don't have enough alcohol in the sector..."

The slouching feline ducked the short round glass, his free-roaming eye watching it shatter on the bulkhead behind and to his left, showering the vicinity with glittering debris. Riyo sensibly kept his head ducked and communed with his drink as he slid another leaf of jack across the bar. If he'd pissed the stocky bartender off enough to sling projectiles the next step would be fists and he could never bring himself to hit the older canine. Zebo had a mean right hook and had once cold cocked Riyo so hard it had seen the feline's artificial eye shoot out of his head like a missile and bloody the nose of the patron 10 feet away. The time before Riyo had learned the old canine friend of his family kept a stun blaster tucked under the bar at testicle height.

It had been an old joke in the spacer lanes that the only way Riyo knew how to show affection for someone was to annoy the shit out of them but, since he often did the same to people he openly detested no one could tell either way. The feline liked it that way, the only people who knew his real intentions were the people he didn't hit back, as hard anyway. Riyo gazed at the shallow level of amber liquid in his glass, pondering the fact that if Zebo hadn't tried to hit him yet, he wasn't drunk enough for his tastes yet. He downed the last swallow and pushed the short glass across the bar with a stiff finger, "So how's Mie?"

The stocky canine uttered a short sound somewhere between a grunt and a groan, "Fat and belligerent."

A crooked grin peaked on one side of the feline's muzzle as he accepted the fresh glass, meeting the canine's own smile, "The honeymoon never ends, eh?"

"Yea, you should swing by and see the kids sometime. Taro just took his entrance exams. Just for the love of Zeft, don't bring Adam..."

"I don't know, watching Mieya twist his leg off and whack him with it was pretty funny."

The stocky canine shook his head sighing, "I don't see how you live through a night on the same ship."

"Same reason I survive in here, Pop was a nice guy."

"Ah hell Riyo, you're a nice guy too, once you stop trying to actively goad people into murdering you."

Riyo perked his ears, his eyes narrowing as they both trained on the bartender, "Oh hell no Zeeb! You ask me to dinner and butter me up and we both know there's only one Zefting reason; every time you treat me so nice I get there and Mie has some belter bred cousin of hers sitting at the table sizing me up like a ration pack that's too small!"

The feline emptied his glass halfway in one grimacing swallow, wiping his muzzle with his long dark sleeve, "And there's no way I'm getting genetically entangled with some middle-aged belter spawn who's only looking for a dick cause her biological clock is hammering. Seeing you, Mie and my side family over the years those'd be fuck ugly puppies..."

The stocky male uttered a barking chuckle and nodded, shrugging theatrically before his head gave an involuntary twitch to one side as his gaze abruptly shifted through the lanky feline, then behind him to where the entrance/exit to the tavern was. Riyo swiveled his onyx eye around to get a look through the back of his own skull, the maneuver always made him faintly nauseous, but the perks of being able to see out the back of your own head outweighed the dizzy swim of having 360 degree vision on one side of his skull. The patron that had distracted Zebo was small, slender and slightly seedy looking, other than being unfamiliar with Riyo's normally excellent memory for local and cyclical visitors.

As the short male crept closer Riyo noticed the jacket and coveralls he wore were worn but well cared for, just filthy as was the short muzzled male himself. Riyo couldn't tell what pelt color the slender male sported in the subdued lighting and with the grime streaking his face and hair. Watching the short, vulpine male edge along the tavern egged Zebo into motion, shuffling around the bar as a gap hummed open in its surface. The gangling feline glanced at the gap in the bar top, and then grunted in irritation as Zebo thumbed a small transceiver and made the feline's barstool shift nearly a yard in the direction opposite the open section. He retrieved his drink and let his ebony eye watch as he studied the scorch and gouge marks in the metal bar top with his organic one.

The stocky barkeeper and the slender male were far enough away for the constant drone around them all to drown out their whispered conversation. Riyo watched the fidgety movements of the younger male, sitting up straighter in his seat as Zebo turned, grinning softly as he pointed directly across the bar at the lanky feline, nodding his head to whatever it was the shorter male queried. The feline brought both eyes to bear at the short youth, watching them pick their way across the bar, edging between tables till he selected one at the farthest extreme of the tavern. Zebo gave the feline a slap between the shoulder blades and leaned into his ear, "The fellow over there is looking for a hauler."

"There are plenty of haulers in this sector, why mine?"

The canine male shrugged, sliding two fresh glasses of darker brown liquid to the feline before pointing to where the vulpine male sat slightly hunched over, "You were the first that came to mind."

"You bring so much joy to my life Zeeb. See you later, hopefully."

The feline snatched up the pair of drinks irritably, stretching his entire frame out to its full height of two meters and several inches, his lanky but solid frame of whipcord muscle and black fur rippled up and down under his nondescript jumpsuit of charcoal and black, worked through at the knees and elbows and bulging at the pockets and pouches, crossed at the hips by a pair of mesh belts in which dangled a wide array of instrumentations, mini tools and his battered blaster. Riyo's coveralls carried no distinguishing marks, other than various stains and stitched holes, much like the rest of him, clad in neutral muted colors, save for his chillingly blue eye and lurid pink of the insides of his ears.

The feline slouched back into his accustomed posture of vague indifference, letting his spine recompress and drag his upper mass down a few inches, correcting his center of balance as he moved. Life in space taught one to be more aware of where their body was and what it was doing at the best of times, and how to control it in the chaos of the worst of times. The short vulpine was chewing his lip, already chafed and slightly dehydrated from the constantly recycled air aboard space vessels. He looked up in silence at the hunched feline who lowered himself into the chair next to his at the table with a soft exhale of a weary traveler who saw the prospect of another leg to their journey taking longer than expected.

Riyo shoved one of the glasses at the vulpine that eyed it warily, "What do you want?"

As anticipated, the curt, brutally direct question caught the fox off guard, letting Riyo have several seconds of awkward silence to get a closer look at him, with both eyes. With the pretense of scratching his shaggy hair the feline tweaked the earpiece tucked behind his ear and nestled safely in his hair, adjusting the harmonics of the vibrations his ebony eye gave off. His vision suddenly made him vaguely dizzy once more as he saw the vulpine and bar in two completely different spectrums of light wavelength, the two sides of his vision meshing sickeningly like a demented mosaic.

Riyo gulped from his glass, letting it quiet the nausea as he scanned the vulpine male from ear-tip to his toes, a lot of the readings were vague as usual from the low powered scanning but he could fill in the gaps himself as he gazed into the fox's green and gold flecked eyes. The vulpine's height barely scraped a meter and a half and a scant inch or two on top of it and his weight was slender verging on skinny, almost underfed or being unused to a good meal. The younger male's age was hard to guess at, but Riyo pegged it somewhere in the vicinity of his second decade. The younger male's fur was a dingy grayish, mottled with dust, grease and assorted organic materials that made it seem like he'd been crawling through duct-work. His shoulder length hair was tangled and twisted into a rough tail at the nape of his neck, lying limply.

Riyo decided that clean the younger male would have passed for decently attractive; looking at the clothing the other male was wearing that like his own sported no decals, emblems or insignias to discern where he was from or where he'd gotten it. The lanky feline noticed straight off how the vulpine kept one paw stuffed into the deep pockets of the engineering jacket he wore, his free grip toying with the glass in front of him but not making any moves to drink, making the feline sigh gently. The startled vulpine remembered where he was and stuttered in what seemed to Riyo to be an out of character way, "S-s-sorry, I'm looking for a runner."

Feigning disinterest the feline leaned on the table, letting himself lean almost uncomfortably close to the younger male, "Plenty of runners in the port sweetness. But I note you're looking for a runner but you told Zeeb you were looking for a hauler, did you piss someone off?"

The vulpine snapped his muzzle shut like he'd been stung, leaning almost imperceptibly away from the feline who chuckled inwardly, "No. Well, yes, but no, but I... I need a ship, out of system, as soon as possible."

The younger male glanced over his shoulder at Zebo who was obliviously cleaning glasses, "He said you worked cheap and never stayed anywhere long."

"Yea, remind me to thank him later. Look kid, I run a cargo transport, not some pleasure skiff for kiddies looking to run away from mommy and daddy for a few months while their insurance contracts kick back in, you know what I mean?"

To his surprise the vulpine bristled softly, his lips shooting upward in a snarl as he glared across the barely arms length gap between them, "I'm NOT a kid!"

As several patrons glanced around for the source of the unearthly hiss the fox caught himself and plunged back into muted whispering, "And I'm not running away from my parents!"

"Yeah, but you are running, aren't you?"

Riyo got tired of watching the vulpine toy with his drink, snatching it from him and taking a sip before banging the glass back in front of him and wiping his muzzle, "And see, it's not drugged or poisoned."

The shorter male chewed on the feline's outburst for a moment before wiping the rim of the glass and draining it in two long gulps, banging it back down in front of Riyo and nodded, "Yea, I am. And I need a ship, a smuggler, a runner, anything."

Riyo slid his own half finished drink across the table where the slender vulpine sipped it in a more controlled fashion. He leaned back and rested his muzzle on his paw, "So, you need a transport off this rock, to anywhere, no questions asked, as soon as fucking possible, eh?"

"Yes!"

The lanky feline chuckled darkly, "Well, for starters, let's talk about what you did. Cause you have clothes on your back that are stolen, a half empty med-pack, a laser scalpel in your pocket, that you can stop fingering before you slice off a chunk of your leg, a half full dermal injector in your other pocket with two ampoules and, a cred chit stuffed somewhere very uncomfortable, but I can't tell denomination at arm's length."

As if seeing the future the feline snapped his arms and legs out as the young vulpine tensed up to spring away, catching him completely by surprise as he kept him wedged in his chair, holding tightly to his upper arms and with his legs wrapped around the younger male's ankles, "And if you jump up and start screaming there will be flex drowning this place like you just pulled an antimatter detonator out of your nose."

Riyo let this sink in as he watched the younger male flinch drastically at the word "flex" and almost tumble headlong out of his seat as the feline released his vice-grip. He looked at the shorter male who was shivering in his chair, looking decidedly sick with his eyes wide, "Yeah, I thought you might be a slide doing a runner."

The fox slumped into his chair, somehow managing to look both angry and terrified at the same time as he glared at the feline, "What of it?"

Riyo sighed, "One, that's technically guild controlled in this sector, so I could lose my contracts, and two, there are charters set up to deal with slides who don't want to work anymore."

The vulpine growled softly, "He beat the hell out of me..."

"That's against consortium charters and regulations, he could be revoked."

"You know what it's like down there! Enough jack and rules and regs go out the fucking airlock... I'd rather take my chances then end up dead..."

"I somehow got that sensation. Breaking contract, fleeing, larceny, theft and assault."

The vulpine glanced up sharply as Riyo pointed to his sleeve, "Just now noticed the blood."

"He deserved it. Elin broke contract with me the second he beat the hell out of a couple of us for balking at a "party" he had set up with one of the belter guilds."

The room seemed deathly quiet as Riyo rubbed his forehead for a long moment, finally sighing with gusto, "I suppose that is technically correct."

He levered his blue eye to the younger male's face, "How much cred is that chit worth?"

The feline perked his ears as the fox mumbled something under his breath, glancing away, "What was that?"

"I said five hundred..."

Riyo barked a short, mirthless yet somehow almost demented chuckle, "Zeft wept, I'm risking my contracts for a cheap whore..."

The vulpine yelped like he'd been scalded, a livid twitch building in his ear as he glared at the lanky feline, "You know that anything over 500 creds sets off an automated alarm if you don't have the proper ID codes."

"Yeah, yeah, in for a kilo, in for a ton. Shit, might as well do something exciting for once lately. It's been a couple years."

Riyo rummaged in his belt, then whistled to Zebo and held up one finger, which was returned by the scowling canine, but he brought the feline a new drink anyway before heading back to the bar, muttering. Riyo thrust a small, discus shaped tablet at the vulpine and shoved the drink into his hand, "Bottom's up!"

The fox palmed the tablet, looking at it like it might bite him, "You want me to swallow this?"

"Yes, it's that or let me shove it up your ass, and you're chipped, I assume?"

"Of course, what is this?"

Riyo tapped his fingers on the bar to the beat of four, looking impatiently toward the younger male, "Biodamper, scrambles your biometric signatures. Any internal, external or handheld scanning device will register you as being a 'droid or robot, the shipment, passage and travels of which are much less restricted than teenaged whores with a bounty on their head."

The vulpine flashed in anger again before Riyo gestured at him, "Do what you're accustomed to doing, Swallow!"

The ebon furred feline made it clear with his body language that if he made the request again he'd be jamming it down the younger male's throat, so the shorter male heaved the small disc into his mouth and chugged it down with his fresh drink, slamming his glass and paw down onto the table-top. Riyo nodded and consulted the chron wrapped around his narrow wrist, "Now we wait 5 sweeps to give the little booger time to fuck with your bio signals."

He slouched down into his seat, going almost motionless compared to the constantly fidgeting and shifting vulpine. At the sixth time the younger male moved his hips in his seat the feline opened his eyes and kicked him hard enough in the shin to make him bark, "OW, what the fuck did you..."

"Sit still. Keep wriggling like you have a Lectarin eel up your ass and you might as well hang a sign over your head screaming 'Hey, come check my pass papers!' Savvy?"

Riyo's sibilant hiss made the vulpine settle down, the shorter male reaching into his pocket and pulling out the compact dermal injector, fiddling with the controls and pressing the tip into his wrist, triggering it, "There, that should calm me down."

The feline nodded, "I figured you had boosted an amp and a sleeper."

"Only way to stay awake or make yourself sleep crammed in an access duct."

"How long you been running?"

The short vulpine sniffed, rubbing his nose as he shrugged, "Two roll overs, maybe more. It's hard to tell with no chron and no daylight."

Riyo nodded, sinking into his seat further, making the fox wonder how someone so tall could almost rest his nose on the table-top, "I figure this is your first time seeing the stars from this side though."

"Yeah, but I knew there'd be nowhere to go land-side."

Sensing the questions hanging in space the vulpine carried on in a slower, softer tone, "I woke up in the local first aid block. They patched me up. First thing I decided was to make a bolter of it. Night shift only has two nurses; they leave the rest up to the bots and auto-docs. I yanked the power cable on the auto-doc, lifted its scalpel, cut open a cabinet and boosted the meds, smacked the nurse pretty good over the dome and pumped him with the sleeper, then stole his clothes and took off."

Riyo showed no emotion as the fox spilled his guts, just wincing at the term "auto-doc", "Do me a favor, don't mention auto-docs or nurse droids once we get to the ship, ok?"

"Yea, sure... No problem."

The vulpine nodded, glancing around as he watched the feline stretch, not pushing for any answers. He was oblivious as Zebo jerked a finger at Riyo and made a small gesture with his thumb, making the feline nod and circle his thumb and forefinger. Riyo stood suddenly enough to make the shorter male jump, "Time to go."

The feline grabbed the glass on the table, swirling the dregs around in his muzzle, then upending it over his paws and splashing it over his jumpsuit, then grabbed the vulpine unceremoniously and splashed him with the strong alcohol, making him utter a questioning grunt as the feline slid a long, lean arm across his shoulders and leaned into him, his blunt muzzle barely brushing his ear, "Play it smooth, follow my lead, and do not show any sign you're anything but my bitch, got it?"

The vulpine didn't have any length of time to answer, before he was jerked toward the doors by the taller feline, feeling Riyo's fingers biting into his upper arm like steel hooks. With the small dose of the tranquilizer and the booze flowing through his head and veins the vulpine had enough of a barrier to surprise and fear to suppress a tingle of shock that ran up his spine as they exited the bar and ran almost headfirst into a pair of security thugs. The pair of broad, rangy males were both dressed in dark blue jumpsuits with silver slashed badges sewn onto both shoulders and chest, talking to one another in a slow, unconcerned drawl as the feline and vulpine burst from the tavern and almost stepped on them.

Riyo saw both males draw back automatically, their hands sliding to the butts of the blasters on their hips and stifled a grin. He worked his lanky body, letting half of it go lax and half of it stiffen, making him swing through a slow pirouette that made the two broad males shift away from one another and carried himself and the vulpine past and away from them. The feline uttered an utterly demented cackle, making it seem as if he were leaning heavily on the smaller male as he guided the fox away from the sec males, putting on a flawless show of being drunk off his ass, "How's it going boys? Heading for the drinker? I was just coming from there myself!"

Riyo's manic smile made his good eye light up wildly as he swayed against the smaller male and leaned toward the two armed male, his upper body wobbling as he slurred and added a finely rounded stage hiccup. Both hired guns took a step back from the sudden explosion of alcohol vapor in their general direction, noting that both staggering males reeked of booze, exchanging glances with one another at the harmless, if boisterous drunk and his glaze-eyed companion. One of the sec males nudged the other and gave a sheepish grin at the abrupt startling the soused feline had given them, waving both the staggering males off with a negligent wave. The black furred feline gave a slurred giggle once more as he nodded to the taller of the two sec males, "You guys are great, finest guns in the sector, I-I know the barkeep, tell him I said to give you both a free round, on me!"

Riyo snapped a very loose wrested salute to both the broad males and spun woozily on his heel, leaning into the smaller male and leading him away from the bar and deeper into the promenade, staggering and stumbling till his ebon eye watched both the other males stride into Zebo's bar without another glance in their wobbling direction. The feline waited for another few moments before he straightened up, his drunk act vanishing like ice under a plasma torch as he gripped the vulpine's wrist and kept walking, "Well, that was fun."

The younger male stared open-mouthed as they wended their way down and around the sweeping central hub of the space port, putting as much distance between themselves and Zebo's bar as possible as Riyo grumbled, "Should have heard from..."

He was interrupted as the comm. unit built into his wrist strap whistled and he jabbed it with a finger, "Yo."

An odd, slightly droning, sarcastic synthetically altered voice sprung from the comm., "You don't sound nearly drunk enough to be tolerable, what happened?"

"Close it bolt brain, where are you?"

"Shove it one-eye." The voice pitched deeper and almost adopted a metallic grate as it snapped at Riyo, making the vulpine glance between him and the speaker, "I'm about a section and a half from you."

Riyo opened his muzzle to reply but the channel went dead, leaving him to pondering cracking the casement of the innocent comm. unit. The feline sighed and began to count out loud backward from ten, making the vulpine regard him in puzzled amusement, "Stress reduction is outmoded."

Riyo didn't look at the shorter male, merely continuing to count, "8, 7... It's a countdown, not a stress reliever, 2...1..."

The feline rubbed the back of his skull as he glanced about, seeming irritated, then grabbing the foxes wrist and yanked him bodily a meter to the right as a ground car screeched to a shuddering halt right where the both of them had been standing. The deck plates smoked faintly as the battered ground car issued a hissing growl of exhaust and recharged its pneumatic braking system in one breath. The wide, flat, open topped vehicle boasted 4 seats, a snubbed nose, a large storage compartment in back and one of the most bizarre paint jobs the young vulpine had ever seen, seeming like a mix of every flat, neutral color anyone had ever thought of dribbled and swathed the battered, pockmarked and dented flanks.

The pilots seat was empty, and the short vulpine wondered how the vehicle had been steered till he saw the jumble and tangle of components making up the control panel and dashboard of the car, some of which he'd never seen period, some of which he recognized as having no business being meshed into the control or steering of a ground vehicle. He watched Riyo throw himself over the flank of the battered ground car and settle into the driver's seat like a pistol into a holster it was made for, the feline jerking a finger at him to get in to the seat opposite. The vulpine nodded and glanced at what seemed like a pile of scrap metal in the back passenger seats, uttering a tiny shriek as it turned and looked at him with a critical set of glowing eyes.

Riyo sighed and stretched his lean frame, clamping a paw over the teenaged vulpine's muzzle, shushing him as the pile of metal scraped and ticked quietly, rearranging itself into a vaguely humanoid shape, a jumble of seemingly mismatched arms and legs, with curling, twitching metal fingers, smooth joints and a rounded, oblong head with a pair of large, mismatched eyes, one large, round and bright green, the other squinting, triangular and pale gold, the bundle of humming, metallic sounds coming faster as a jaw snapped open and closed for an instant as the same, disinterested, vaguely disgruntled voice rang out, "Quit staring organ pouch and get in the car."

Riyo huffed, "Adam, be nice. Kiddo, in the car, now please."

The feline unceremoniously tugged the shorter male into the bucket seat beside his, making him sprawl with a squeak and wriggle, righting himself as the ground car set into motion with a squeal of rubber on metal and the corridors swept around them as Riyo punched in the destination and then punched up an entry code, watching the lighted panels click over and come to life. The speeding car took a swatch of paint off a bulkhead as they went around a nearly 45 degree corner, making Riyo wince, "Remind me to have Valentine look at the brakes and stabilizers."

The feline gazed around at the robot slouched in the bucket seat behind, sighing irritably as he realized it was stridently ignoring him and the young vulpine, humming in a vaguely disquieting, discordant manner, some song the lanky male didn't recognize. The ground car swept down a slight incline, then headed for another corner, Riyo heard the fox next to him whimper softly as he gripped the sides of his seat himself, sighing in relief as he heard a series of muffled clicks, the proper contacts throwing over that time and the vehicle lurched in a smoother arc, taking the curve with aplomb as the front and back wheels turned independently. He smiled halfway apologetically, "These tram tunnels are normally meant for smaller, slower things, but this is the fastest way back to the loading docks.

The ground car set its teeth into the fresh straightaway, the speedometer glowing brightly as it lit up in stages, showing their speed as about 10 kph above what might be considered safe for the maze of tunnels. The glowing strip lighting flashed past almost dizzyingly as Riyo tried to reassure the short vulpine, "We have gravity harnesses and velocity stress dampening, and gel deployment safety barriers."

He glanced back at the humming robot, "You haven't been fucking with the gravity harnesses again though, have you tin man?"

"No. But I sometimes don't recall everything I've done through the course of my day. I get so busy you know."

The lanky feline muttered darkly, hissing a few threatening curses over his shoulder, seeming to have no effect on the slouched robot in the passenger compartment. The rumbling ground car lurched around another curve and into a tunnel, the strips of lighting flashing by turning to a subdued red, making the entire ride verge into the unreal as the vulpine clung to his seat, ignoring the eerie humming coming from Adam and the demonic grin on the feline in the bucket seat next to him. As if to reassure the smaller male Riyo thumbed his chron, "We'll be there within a minute."

The slender fox held on, nodding as his stomach shifted in response to their flying hell-bent over a cluster of gravity plates meant to haul cargo. The fat wheels chirped as their undercarriage rattled, but the cargo tunnel flattened out and widened appreciably as they careened into the transport bay, shoving a pair of wheeled tool carts out of their way with a shriek of metal on metal. The ground car screeched up a ramp and onto the median between berthed ships and tugs of various shapes and sized, rattling as it centered itself onto the clattering metal plates, heading for the extreme end of the bay itself. A few automated droids chattered at them as they darted away and a handful of techs and cargo loaders in bulky lifter-suits shot them dark looks, but didn't stop to give the speeding passenger vehicle more then a glance and an oath as it passed.

Riyo sprung his harness, grinning as the ground car nosed into a wide curve, bringing them into a berth almost at the very end of the bay, its lamps lighting up a battered, matte gray hull of a large, boxy, torpedo shaped ship resting on a double set of thick, articulated landing struts, dim red lights winking at them as the feline triggered a switch on the dash controls and a ramp unfurled from the aft of the cargo hauler and they bumped up onto the treaded metal and rubber, slowing down as the bulk of the hull enclosed them. The feline guided the ground car into its assigned slot, feeling the front fenders bump the bulkheads and the familiar growling rumble of the engine died away as a pair of struts clunked and deftly gripped the chassis of the vehicle, holding it in place for safety.

Riyo bounded from the car, pointing at the young fox and Adam who slid his optical sensors toward the feline suspiciously, "Out."

The feline tipped his head back and bellowed, "VALENTINE! Wake Navi and get us ready to go!"

He gripped the vulpine by the collar of his jacket, making the younger male sputter and fall into step next to him, objecting by way of half-formed protests. Adam was making a meal of not so much exiting the car as congealing onto the deck plates next to it, heaving himself up with an exaggerated humming and whining of motivators and servos. Upright the menacing robot looked almost humanoid, with long tapering arms and legs, a smooth, segmented torso and a somewhat bulbous head, with a small mouth, his overlarge optical sensors glowing as he watched the two organic males go, "Fine. I'll stay here. Let all you organic life-forms get in each other's way. If anyone wants me I'll be in the storage locker."

Riyo half dragged the shorter male through the ship, the slightly cramped corridor that led down the spine of the ship, dotted with rounded doorways, their doors shut as they trudged up a short flight of stairs that turned 180 degrees and led them up onto the flight deck and operations center of the transport. A large, rectangular space was ringed with hatches like below, opening through a double-wide doorway recessed into the bulkheads into a roomy wedge shaped bridge. Half a dozen brightly lit stations and consoles ringed the control deck, two stations to the fore, down a short ramp behind which sat a wide, deep, square seat surrounded by control consoles. Two consoles sat to the aft sides, featuring swiveling seats and the remaining console was directly behind the command chair, linked by a massive conduit to what the young vulpine thought was a stasis chamber laying horizontal, set into the decking just behind the thickly padded command seat.

The younger male gasped as he glimpsed a body within the dimly lit tube, making Riyo grunt softly, "Don't worry, he's not dead, just waking up."

The feline pushed the younger male into a softly padded chair behind one of the consoles aft, "Sit, and stay. Navi prefers to be asleep when we're in port. Saves us all headaches."

Riyo opened his muzzle and bellowed once more, "VALENTINE!"

Both males, shorter and taller jumped almost a foot as an access port popped off the bulkhead above them and a wild haired head dropped from the opening with an equal bellow, "WHAT?!"

Riyo clutched the front of his jumpsuit, his eyes narrowing as he inhaled and exhaled stridently, "Zeft Wept! What are you doing up There?!"

"Navi's tube was giving the environmental controls conniptions again. Secondary life-sciences processor wasn't clearing it for flight."

"Is it fixed?"

"Close enough."

Valentine reached a long, smooth, hairless arm down and banged a readout, watching the flickering red indicator finally grudgingly kick over to green. He uttered a breathless sound and gripped the edges of the access hatch, heaving himself out of the maintenance duct head over heels and landing in front of the short fox with a huff. The slender vulpine bristled as the humanoid male leaned over him almost nose to nose and glanced at Riyo, "You're usually a lot more drunk when you pick up someone this dirty Riyo."

"He's a fare, not a fuck, though those two things may not be mutually exclusive."

"Oh."

The young fox sized up the engineer, "Not many pink skins out this far."

"I suppose. Not many dirty apes."

The engineer was all arms and legs, more so than Riyo, with large hands and feet, bare from the wrists and ankles down, his abbreviated jumpsuit showing his smooth, slightly olive complexion and hairless, furless skin, belying his human heritage. The engineer was lean as a lathe, mostly angles, with an oddly long neck, angular head, with prominent cheekbones, large almond shaped eyes and slightly pointed, swept back ears. Valentine's nose showed a ridge down its bridge that gave a funny series of indentations to his forehead, making it seem as if he were perpetually lost in thought, with the over-reaching arch of his eyebrows lending to the air of slight lunacy along with his wide, expressive golden brown eyes. The human's hair was shaved on either side of his head, leaving a towering row of teased spikes flaring in a ridge down the center of his skull, with a long, lean, braided rat-tail draping down between his shoulder blades, both Mohawk and ponytail a screaming blood red that clashed ludicrously with his mauve jumpsuit.

The gangling human arched and yelped as Riyo swatted him across the ass, "Get Navi up and let's get powering up... I want to be out-bound in 15."

Riyo grinned at the bewildered vulpine, "Just stay put; once we're out-bound you can wash and eat."

"Sounds good to me..." The statement stuttered into a deep, jaw cracking yawn as the Plexiglas face of the sleep tube slid back and allowed the faint wisps of compressed and cooled air to escape as the 4th member of the ship's crew sat up with a shake of his own wild head of light blonde hair, his dazzling violet eyes creaking open. Navi knuckled his brilliant eyes as he struggled to fling his long, skinny legs over the edge of his "bed", the feline male was obviously a Vakari, the lean, spotted, cheetah-like felines who were renowned for their astrogational skills. The spotted male's lean body was stark naked, making the young fox blush idly, averting his gaze as the Vakari staggered to his broad feet and stretched luxuriously, long, lean legs crackling, narrow hips and spine popping, his slightly barrel chest, indicative of his species flaring, showing his ribs as another massive yawn made his tongue flop from his gaping muzzle.

Navi's pelt was spotted and hues of creamy gold and white, washed out, rather than the startling amber and gold of a normal member of his kinds were, with the deep black solid spots that dotted their legs, arms, and body from the tips of their ringed tail to their nape. His light blonde hair seemed to complete the washed out, almost ghostly paleness of his pelt as his slightly rheumy eyes settled onto the short fox. The dazzling flare of violet caught the vulpine's gaze as the Vakari male tottered to another chair and folded into it with a sigh. The feline's eyes were deep and bright as he held the fox's gaze for a long moment, then his concentration sent his attention sliding elsewhere. Riyo watched the exchange as he idly tripped switches and toggles, grinning slightly.

Navi's voice was slightly muted by his paws as he scrubbed his face, gazing with infinite gentleness at the younger fox, "Running... Running and running and running, through blood and pain and fire, to the dark and cold, seeking the stars to run amongst and get lost from your past of no past."

"No name. No past. No regrets... Running..."

The spotted male broke off as Riyo swiveled the padded chair beneath him to face the navigation console. He played his long fingered paws across the flight controls, watching as the lines and arcs swept around his fingers, drawing him in, the song that flowed through his head smoothing as he input their now complete flight plan, then leaned back in the chair, yawning stridently. The young fox hadn't spoken, just stared at the spotted feline, glancing between him and the black coated feline as Riyo finished inputting his own codes into the ship's main computer. The dark furred feline looked to the short fox, grinning softly, "Don't be scared, Navi kind of does that. He's psi-positive, long story."

He patted Navi on the shoulder, making the spotted feline slouch into his chair more as he noticed the Vakari's skull had slid sideways onto his own shoulder, a slight buzzing hum coming from his blunt, dust colored nose as he snored gently. The whirling violet eyes were closed lightly, showing the spotted feline was off dreaming. Riyo let the lean navigator sleep, adjusting the chair so he wouldn't tumble from it and gesturing to the seated vulpine, "He'll sleep for a while. He usually doesn't wake fully till we're out into deep space. It keeps his brain from frying around all the minds on a planet or space station."

The younger male nodded hesitantly, gazing at the slumbering Vakari, then yelping as the human engineer almost banged their heads together as he swooped close, the human's bright gaze rummaging up and down the slender fox's dingy form, "Not too bad, but dirty. Don't wash where you come from?"

"Of course we wash! But living rough in a storage closet for 3 days doesn't let you wash or eat too well."

"Stow-away, running, eh? Running far and fast like Navi says, eh?"

The long limbed human giggled, flexing his long arms and legs, turning on his heel and pivoting deftly at the waist as Riyo aimed a jab at his side, "Riyo must like you; he's hitting, or trying to!"

"Stuff it up your ass monkey man... Just get us throbbing."

Riyo glowered at his engineer as Valentine chattered away, sliding down the railing to the lower deck. He glanced to the younger male, shrugging, "He's right though, you're a bit ripe, even for my tastes."

The slender fox raised his paw in a universal gesture, making the laser scalpel topple from his pocket as he shifted. The metal and plastic casing clattered to the floor between them as the vulpine's green eyes flicked to it. As both of them moved, a hum whined and a long, thin tendril of metal flashed over the ribbed deck plates between them and slithered around the casing of the scalpel, snagging it with a set of prongs and snatching it up into the air. The slender fox gasped as the metallic tendril retracted with blinding speed and the scalpel flicked into Adam's polished hand with a hollow thunk and the robot closed his delicately articulated fingers around the handle.

The slouching metal construct ran his gleaming optical sensors over the neat, compact housing of the surgical tool, nodding his polished skull in a surprisingly humanoid gesture, "I'll take this, if no one objects. I could use a new one."

A soft hum of servo motors whined as the robot's slitted mouth opened and he inserted the oblong casement of the scalpel into it, gleaming metal teeth biting down and shearing the handle into pieces, making them spark as the robot chewed the tool almost pensively. Riyo merely smirked as the faintly glowing diode at the business end of the scalpel vanished into the robot's maw, the crackle and grind of the metallic jaws finishing with a snap and Adam issued a sound almost like an organic swallow, sarcastically patting the front of his ribbed torso with his hand, making it thud dully, "You organics seem to enjoy the phrase "you are what you eat"."

A deep grinding issued from the wide thorax of the robot and he lifted his arm, making the open-mouthed fox gasp as the metallic skin of his forearm and upper arm seemed to ripple and his arm suddenly pivoted on the elbow, the entire length of his forearm rotating lengthwise in it's hidden pivot so that his hand snapped into the elbow and at the end of the polished limb a bright, new glowing scalpel identical to the one that had vanished into his mouth now pivoted experimentally on a ball joint. The subdued blue glow left a trail of light as Adam moved the blade slowly, almost seeming appreciative of the tool of both healing and destruction now integrated into his body.

The robot's overlarge optical sensors swiveled to the young fox, lingering on him for a moment, then skated away to Riyo as the metallic male shifted on his broad, deftly articulated feet, "Valentine says we can leave anytime. Thought you'd like to know."

"We have an intercom you know bolt brain..."

The robot uttered a disgusted sort of grinding sound as he pivoted on his middle and stalked away with an ungainly rotating flick of his legs, giving the dark furred feline a choice gesture with surprising delicacy as his long, articulated fingers whirred gently, "You flesh sacks made me humanoid for ease of interface with your limited vocal and sensory capacity, then you bitch when I want to interface with you directly..."

Adam trudged away with a metallic sound of ennui, his feet scraping gently, "Meat bags... Can't live with them, can't jettison them all into space..."

Riyo shook his head as he swiveled to face his own control console, the large gauges and readouts flickering to life as they both felt a steady pulsing throb begin to cycle around them, drumming through the skin of the ship and letting the massive energy of the engines flow freely around them. The dark furred feline double-checked Navi's flight plan and then fed it into the computer, keying the automated navigation controls and linking them into the station's guidance system, letting the autopilot oversee their departure from the docking bay. There was a loud clank and clunk. Then the ship started to rise from her berth, making the young fox glance nervously around the dimming control deck. Riyo chuckled gently, "Chill it a bit."

"I-I've never been in space before..."

The slender young male shivered softly, feeling the ship shift and settle around him almost like a living thing, every creak and ping making him bristle slightly as he tried to relax into his chair, watching with almost frantic fascination out the central viewing port that took up the entire bulkhead to the fore of the bridge. He could see the muted color of the stations bulkheads sliding by them in reverse as the transport slid backward, easing around toward a massive space door in the distance. There was a grinding hum and then two pairs of loud clunks, making him jump till Riyo waved a paw dismissively, "Just the landing legs retracting."

The dark furred feline waved his fingers, "Come here, you'll like this part."

The slender fox stood slightly off balance as he adjusted to the gravity field of the transport, easing toward where the black furred feline sat in his thickly padded chair. He stood nervously with his hip brushing the angular arm, watching the view port with overly bright eyes, anxiously wide, yelping as Riyo seized his hips and tugged him bodily into the seat with him, seating him in his own lap, "Relax, Zeft Wept, just watch, this is the best part for a virgin spacer."

The younger male wriggled for a moment, a flush racing up his ears as he gently, nervously relaxed into the taller male's lap, stridently ignoring the contours of the feline body beneath him as he gripped Riyo's arm tightly, leaning forward to stare out the wide view port. The space door was gaping now, showing a wide, lengthening gap of pure black, the widening opening seeming to slow, making the slender fox grind his teeth, abruptly fearing being shorn into pieces before his rational mind told him that the ship took up barely a fraction of the space door's entire width. With a sudden, gut-flattening boost of speed the transport squirted between the huge metal doors and emerged into the glittering blackness of space, making the younger male gasp in excitement as he saw the limitless expanse of the universe around him, dotted with twinkling diamonds. He could see the broad, arching limb of the world below them sweeping away, with the blazing disc of the system's main star nestled in the mind-bending distance, a molten coin hung in space.

The transport banked, giving a glimpse of the massive space station before it settled into the distance behind them and the only thing filling the view port was the twinkling pinpricks of light scattered on the limitless velvet blackness of infinity. The young male settled back, shivering gently before realizing he was settling himself farther into the warm lap of the smirking feline beneath and behind him. Riyo's rumbling voice stirred the fine hairs on the edge of his ear, "Almost magical, isn't it?"

"I don't even know you." The slender male startled at the proximity of the feline's muzzle, feeling his warm breath as he blushed gently again. The black furred male shrugged, the movement making both of them shift gently, "You're a whore, knowing who I am usually doesn't matter, does it?"

One of the younger male's elbows shifted back, digging the feline in the ribs, making him chuckle as the fox sniffed in distaste, "Not by choice."

"Yea, fucking anything with a cock has to be a choice."

The younger male's lip curled as he squirmed in the feline's lap, growling gently, then harder and higher as Riyo chuckled again, holding him loosely, but firmly. The fox shifted his hips in annoyance as he felt something jabbing his thigh, hoping it was just a tool pouch that had shifted, "I didn't care where I ended up after schooling, just so long as it was away from my nuked family!"

Riyo pondered gently as he felt the younger male continue to wiggle, "So, 5 years of selling your ass, just to get away from your family. So where are you from?"

"I don't remember."

"What about your family, then?"

"I don't remember..."

The feline wrinkled his muzzle as he glanced at the shifting fox, "And what about your name? You haven't even told us your name yet."

"I don't have one."

The younger male ceased squirming as the feline gazed at him intently, feeling the weight of the feline's single chillingly blue eye, biting his lip as he growled gently, "When I was taken under contract I let them do a neural wipe."

"I see," The feline let the word roll over his tongue as he looked at the slender male thoughtfully, "So when you were sold into the whore guild, by your family, you let them tinker with your brain. Mind wipes are tricky shit, you didn't want them to half ass it; you just let them blank it all, didn't you? Saves you being ashamed or guilty or wondering what happened to your siblings, not to mention saves you hating your folks."

"Yea, I suppose so."

The steel edge of the vulpine's voice rang out as he jabbed at the feline with his elbow again, trying to free himself from the older male's lap, "Does it matter? I'd rather not remember being taken as a slave or remember a shitty life before I became a slide. Then all I have to worry about is today and tomorrow."

"Well sure, easy, simple, just let them rewire your brain and hell, if you end up with neural damage they can just work you out as damaged goods with even fewer rights."

A faint snort wrinkled the vulpine's nose as he glanced at the control board in front of them, seeing a red light winking on and off, "I think you're supposed to be doing something."

"Oh, shit, yea, thanks. Might want to hang on, by the way."

Riyo grinned softly before sliding his arm under the vulpine's own, smacking a large, throbbing crimson button on his control board. The ship gave a shivering buck around them before the engines cycled up with a humming whine that swiftly pounded into the ultrasonic and the world outside the viewport burst into a swirl of rainbow light, the mind-rending acceleration beyond the speed of light shoving them both back into the chair hard enough to make the vulpine cry out in surprise. His paws closed on Riyo's arm in a crushing grip as his eyes tried to spin out of their sockets with the dizzying lurch of relative space and time erupting all around them. Doing the slender vulpine a favor the feline dimmed the view ports and flicked a few controls, settling them well onto their way across the galaxy to their next destination some week or three away, depending on their course, speed and detours."

"I think I might throw up on you."

"It'll pass, happens to everyone their first time off the ground, their first time through the FTL barrier and their first time through a translocation jump."

The younger male nodded weakly, keeping his lips together as his stomach slowly ceased revolting against him and his head swam back to almost normal. He jumped as a dreamy voice floated to him from almost at his elbow, "I'm hungry... I think."

Navi had awoken from his nap and ambled over to them, gazing down at the pair as he stood weaving gently on his feet, a serene smile tweaking his lips. The wide-eyed Vakari amused himself by playing with the seated fox's hair, tugging and brushing it almost as if he were unaware of what he was doing. The feline's pale spots rippled as he moved, stretching, "You're pretty, but dirty."

He giggled faintly, "Pretty but dirty, dirty but pretty, pretty pretty... Pretty dirty."

"This from someone who forgets to wash for days at a time sometimes."

Riyo nudged the spotted feline in the ass, making him squeak softly, "Come on, he won't get any fresher being poked and prodded by you, horny bit of vapor wear that you are Navi."

The darker furred feline nudged and prodded the wriggling Vakari to one side, smirking as the spotted male giggled more and draped himself across the chair across from the seated pair. Riyo nudged the dingy vulpine, making him start gently, "So, before we get started doing anything else, where's your chip?"

The slender vulpine eased himself out of the lanky feline's lap, shrugging out of the engineer's jacket across his shoulders and draping it over the nearby console, then tugged the zipper of his jumpsuit down to his waist without so much as a glimmer of reserve, shrugging out of the upper half of the coverall and gently tugging his ponytailed hair over his shoulder to dangle against his chest. He tipped his head and gestured awkwardly down his back with his thumb, "Middle of my back, between my shoulder blades."

The vulpine suppressed a twitch as he felt the dark furred feline's lean, strong fingers slide down his nape and back, probing and feeling, locating a dense knot of scar tissue beneath the soft fur of his mid-back, almost along the ridge of his spine. Riyo sucked one of his long canine teeth as he felt the oblong mass about the size of the tip of his littlest finger beneath the vulpine's pelt and skin, "Well, they don't do things by halves, do they. Right up against the spine, halfway down between the T5 and T6 vertebrae, if it blows, if short circuits your spine below the heart."

The feline leaned back in his seat, giving the vulpine a small smack on the curve of his ass, "But not to worry, we have an experienced surgical technician and expert in all things illegal."

Riyo grinned as he thumbed the nearby intercom panel, "Yo, Adam, we need you up here."

The slender vulpine gaped a bit as he heard the scuffing, whirring, uneven cadence of the polished robot's feet dragging theatrically up the steps to the flight deck. The mechanical man's eerie humming drifted to his tucking ears as he heard the metallic scrape of the robot's fingers along the railings. The slouching robot pulled himself level with the control deck, shuffling along with his unhurried, almost ironic gait, his bright optical sensors swiveling and dilating as he gazed at the scene of Navi lounging nude, Riyo seated with the slender vulpine leaning over the control panel naked to the waist. A gentle metallic grinding punctuated his words, "I have no interests in your fleshy little orgies Riyo."

"Oh shut-up you clanking bag of screws, he's chipped. It needs to be removed."

"Not much better, but any diversion is a good diversion I guess."

The robot's posture straightened with a ratcheting sound as he opened and closed his delicately articulated fingers and hands in a very organic gesture. He shuffled up behind the vulpine and pushed him farther over onto the control panel, "Stay."

"Is... T-this gonna...?"

"Hurt?"

The gleaming robot's voice modulated, drawing the single word out almost painfully, pitching it in such a way that if he'd been capable of smiling, he probably would have been in much the same way a lunatic cradling a very large bomb might, "Well, if I screw up, you won't have long to worry about the excruciating agony, but this may pinch a bit, yes."

The bending vulpine felt his fur bristle at the low, almost manic metallic chuckle before he felt the robot's hands on him, shivering more at the fact that the metal digits were warm as opposed to ice cold, their subdued hum making him grit his teeth. Adam hummed once more as he worked, his hands and arms clicking and ratcheting as a small, tube-shaped device popped from his forearm, working in tandem with his large, red optical sensor that telescoped slightly in its socket, scanning through the vulpine's tender flesh, probing through the thick pelt, looking past the scarred skin, parting the layer of fat with his vision right down to the layer of muscle the small device was buried in. Adam tipped his head, moving the mouth of the sleek tube to press flush with the fox's skin, over the dense mass, "There you are."

There was a hum and a whine, then a loud crack of discharge, making the slender fox yowl softly in surprise, feeling as if someone had slapped him hard on the back. A faint whiff of ozone and scorched fur drifted from his back as the robot lifted the tube away, retracting it once more, "Well, that went well. Now, for the extraction..."

The leaning vulpine swallowed hard as he heard the clicking snap of the robot's forearm disgorging another tool, shifting his head slightly as a thin, high, strident whine built, the tiny circular saw that had popped loose from the robot's arm giving a buzz as it telescoped out a few inches, then back in. The slender fox yelped and started to yank away before he hard Riyo finally snort through a chuckle, "Adam, don't tease him."

"Spoil sport."

The robot gave the darker furred feline a gaze as the tiny vibrating saw vanished back into his arm, "You know I do so love hazing the newbies."

With a shrug the robot laid one hand on the fox's lower back, "Don't move."

He flexed his fingers, their tips lengthening and extending into wickedly curved points, making the young male gasp. Adam lunged, his fingertips brushing the fox's back, darting in and out in less then the tip it took the slender male to yelp at the sudden burst of tingling heat in his skin before pulling back with the tiny, oblong black and matte silver chip clamped between his fingertips. The robot popped the tiny device into his mouth, crunching it as he lifted his other hand, glowing red sensors poking from his fingertips and running through the young male's fur, sealing the tiny wound and smoothing the old scar tissue out till it was barely noticeable.

The young male brushed the robot's hands away, straightening up as he eased his tingling back, the wash of discomfort passing in an instant, "That's it?"

The robot shrugged again, turning on his heels and starting to trudge away, "I'm sorry to disappoint you if you were hoping for some sadomasochistic pain extravaganza..."

"No... Uh, thanks..."

"Mmm."

The robot tilted his head, bobbing it as he scraped away, heading back down into the bowels of the ship once more. Riyo grinned softly, running his paw along the fox's back, feeling for the spot where the chip had lain, but not being able to locate it with any ease, "He does good work. His "skin" is made up of carbon fiber polymer filaments with nano-controllers. He can control it down to the microscopic level, just makes his fingertips sharp down to the molecular level and reaches right through your skin. He can even reach between nerve cell gaps, if he's paying attention for long enough."

The bedraggled youth nodded, sitting on the edge of the control panel and starting to heave at the soft, self-adjusting boots on his feet, "Better than an autod-"

Riyo's voice hissed in his ear as the ebon feline clamped a paw over the end of the fox's slender muzzle, "Remember what we said about the A-D word? Unless you want him to come back and hurt you..."

"Sorry... Sorry..."

With the jumpsuit bunched around his waist the slender fox glanced at the ebon furred male, "Is there a chance of a wash?"

"Yea, there's always a chance of a wash."

Riyo nodded, stretching as he hauled himself to his feet, watching as the short fox lowered the ill fitting boot to the deck with a clunk, wrenching open the ankle clasps of the slightly baggy coverall before dropping the entire suit to the deck plates without preamble and stepping free of the slightly stiff garment, stretching luxuriously. The slender vulpine rubbed at his fur where it was ruffled and matted in crazed angles by the form fitting garment and crusted with salt where he'd sweated so much without bathing. He giggled softly as he saw Riyo sizing him up, tipping his head and shaking it gently, "Let me get clean first, and eat something, then I can eat you."

"The dark furred feline smirked softly, pointing down the corridor off the flight deck, "What makes you think I want to fuck you?"

"Everyone wants to fuck me."

The single blue eye rolled toward the ceiling before looping back to gaze at the slim fox as Riyo led him down a short corridor to a pair of hatchways, "An arrogant slut. So what do we call you, arrogant slut, other than "hey you", if you don't have a name?"

The vulpine shrugged slightly, stretching and savoring the space to let his limbs relax for the first time in almost a week, "We just went by color. Slides didn't need names, so they told us. Just the head sluts had names."

"So what one were you?"

"Silver."

Riyo nodded, thumbing the lock next to the left-hand doorway, "Good enough, till we can find you something better."

The doorway hissed open, revealing a chamber of polished and matte metal and rubberized plates set from floor to ceiling, set in a vaulting arch above them. A wide, plastic windowed booth sat in one corner, with sliding doors across the corner presented, with several gleaming chromed taps and heads set into the angles of the walls, "No tub, I'm afraid. Can't trust Navi with being submerged."

The slender fox poked at the controls of the squat metal commode hiding in the other corner, shrugging as he gazed at the large showering stall and tiny, almost circular sink and polished alloy mirror set up in the third juncture of bulkheads, "I'm not picky."

The young fox tugged the back of Riyo's jacket as the feline made to leave, making the slouching feline quirk his ears as the fox thumbed the control panel, making the doors swish shut again, "We ought talk, while we're alone."

"I suppose we should."

The feline shrugged as he lowered a panel of the wall, hearing it ratchet as a bench seat popped free in front of the sink, then smacked the alloy mirror, making it slide to one side on hidden tracks, exposing a small number locked panel behind it. Riyo reached into the storage locker and pulled out a small, palm-sized pistol-shaped device, waving it at the slender fox who sighed and rolled his eyes, "I don't suppose you'll believe that I'm safe?"

"Do I look like the type of person who believes in taking people's word?"

Riyo grinned lopsidedly as he depressed the trigger on the pistol-grip, playing a dense beam of golden light slowly up and down the vulpine's limbs, checking readings on a small scanner in his other paw as he worked, watching the fox's biometric readings scroll up and down in a tumble of information. The scanner buzzed softly as he played the beam over the vulpine's torso, "Take that credit chit out, it's making the scanner glitch."

"Anything you say."

Silver gently manipulated himself around crotch level, the thumbnail sized chip of metal and plastic falling into his palm as he offered it to the feline, grinning in a bemused kind of way, "Sorry, I really need a wash..."

Riyo ignored the slightly sticky film of the chit, slipping it into his pocket with a grunt before resuming his scans, "Well, other than that hidden next to your cock, there's nothing up your ass. No additional foreign objects anywhere in your body except for a micro-suture embedded in your ankle, you probably broke your leg when you were younger."

"If you say so."

The younger male's blasé attitude toward his almost total amnesia unsettled the feline slightly, but he put it out of his mind, knowing everyone coped differently with brain damage, as he knew from personal experience, "Your enzymes and blood sugar are off. But you haven't eaten in a few days, have you?"

"Just some ration capsules."

"Once I had to live off those for a month. Never want to do that again."

Riyo's muzzle wrinkled from the memory, making the bright-eyed vulpine glance at him curiously, "Were you in the war?"

"Yeah, I was."

The feline snapped the scanner off, replacing it into the storage locker, re-sealing it against Adam's prying metallic fingers before he pointed to his missing eye, "I was a stalker. Navi was in the fighting too. That's why he's a bit of a loon."

"I was probably barely a kit when the war ended. I never heard much about the war in these sectors. Is it true what they say about those bug monster things though? We had to kill them all?"

"Pretty much."

The air of the chamber grew slightly denser as Riyo helped the vulpine adjust the thermal settings of the shower, the water hissing down into the drains as the fox looked at him curiously to continue. The feline nodded, smirking as he felt the slender male brushing closer to him, "The Dracht. Hell on almost two legs. Couldn't bargain with them, couldn't communicate with them, couldn't barter with them, couldn't even surrender to them. All they wanted to do was eat you."

"That's grotesque."

The slim fox shivered theatrically as he brushed past the feline, stepping into the sluice of hot water, grinning happily as the deluge rushed down his body, "Feels so good, almost better than sex after so long being dirty."

"Do slides consider anything better than sex?"

Riyo smirked wryly as he sat once more on the metal bench, watching the pretty vulpine splash and scrub, squeaking as one of the nozzles issued a spraying gout of soap against the center of his chest, "Watch that soap nozzle, the pressure gets away from it sometimes."

"Well, nothing I'm not used to."

Silver looked down at the white swath of soap clinging to his wet fur across his chest and belly, using his paws to massage it into his fur and down across his hips and thighs, scrubbing hard down around his more matted areas as Riyo watched. The slender fox grinned back at the feline as he had to bend over to reach the less accessible spots of his anatomy, "I was honestly getting kind of tired of the life. I love sex, but they were getting too rough, things were too lax, and my particular flex was getting his nose dusty, which just spells trouble."

The warm steam was clouding the plastic partitions of the shower, making the vulpine's body dissolve into a muted silvery white blob when he moved behind the shower walls, scrubbing his fur and hair, letting the deluge wash the grimy suds down the floor drains, just standing under the gushing water, closing his eyes in bliss as it eased the soreness and fatigue from his muscles and relaxed him. Clean the vulpine's fur was a soft, silvery white, tinged almost blue in places with paths of gray mixed around his belly and thighs, his shoulder length hair was almost platinum, with streaks of white. The fox's body was short, with long, lean limbs, thicker in the thighs and upper arms, a nicely broad chest and flat, indented belly, running to a narrow waist. His feet and paws were long and tapered, with clever fingers that looked as though with a bit of training he might be good with mechanical tasks. Silver's long, soaked tail was a darker shade of silvery blue, with a white tip, dangling down over his nicely prominent, curved backside, making Riyo nod appreciatively.

There was a muted roar as the shower shut off and the jets of warm air blasted down from the drier, making the younger male's soaked fur rustle and jump as he endured the waves of heat. He wrung the excess water from his fur and hair, watching it drip down and away, the jets of air working quickly to dry him to just a clinging dampness as his fur sprang back out to its normal texture. All in all the slender vulpine was a little thick thighed but very pretty, with his firm musculature showing through his limbs and chest where he was accustomed to moving and flexing, but his softer, more feminine aspects showing across his belly and backside, giving him a nice mix of the masculine and feminine.

As he smoothed his hair Silver felt it crackle softly, touching one of the nearby metal-sheathed plates to make the static discharge. He gave a faint rumble, stretching, feeling immensely better as he grinned broadly at the seated feline, "So, I heard rumor of food somewhere on this ship?"

The lanky feline nodded, leaning against the bulkhead, "Yup. Plenty, but first, we need to see where you stand. Are you a passenger, are you a stow-away, do you want to be left off on the nearest system we come to fend for yourself, go back to being someone's pet? Am I a means to an end to help your little ass escape or do you want to ship in here, earn some jack not correlating to your ass and see the galaxy?"

"Couldn't I do both?"

"That, my little slip and slide, is probably up to you?"

"I think I could do both. Are you offering to let me be a cabin boy?"

"Cabin slide, eh?"

Riyo smirked softly, offering the lean fox a large, fluffy towel but it was waved away, the vulpine smoothing and adjusting his hair and fur with his fingers, his mane of silvery locks drifting around his face and neck like a spray. The feline rubbed his nose with a finger as he gazed at the fox, "That hair and fur might be too recognizable around this part of the sector for a while though."

Silver looked down at himself in bemusement, "I'm open to suggestions..."

"I... think... Valentine has some color crawlers, here somewhere..."

Riyo rummaged in the storage locker of hygiene items, shoving cans and bottles out of the way till he unearthed a fat, short canister, segmented into wedge shaped compartments lengthwise with a number of flip-lock caps set around the top. The feline glanced at the labels around the perimeter of the canister, "Looks like about half a dozen colors. Take your pick."

He tossed the fat canister to the vulpine. Silver spun it in his paws, reading the colors, "Well, a bit of camouflage can't hurt, I suppose."

Silver selected one of the lock-tops and flipped it open; shaking an even palm-full of what looked like dark grains of sand into his paw, then dumped the mass of granules onto his head. He shook another measure into his paw, sprinkling the grains across his chest and belly, watching them cling to his fur, "Do my back?"

Riyo dappled the fox's back and shoulders with the tiny flecks of color, watching in bemused interest as the tiny nano-machines jumped and slid through the vulpine's thick, soft pelt like tiny fleas, depositing their reservoirs of pigment into his fur and hair as they worked. Soon the fox's hair was a mass of the seething nano-bots, working from the root to the tips of his hair and fur, staining it with their dye payloads till he had streaks and highlights of vivid violet through his hair and pelt. The vulpine giggled as a stray pack of the tiny machines worked dutifully across his muzzle and cheek, leaving a streak of purple across his face. Once the tips of his hair and locks to his scalp were shot through with the deep purple and his pelt was dappled with the darker color, exhausting their reserves of dye, the tiny machines simply dropped to the deck plates, self destructing into microscopic parts to be swept up by the ship's automated maintenance systems and disposed of.

"You seem to have gotten some on you."

Silver pointed wryly to Riyo's wrist and forearm where there were deep streaks of purple glimmering faintly in his deep ebony pelt, where the dedicated little machines had crawled toward his elbow. The feline chuckled dryly, shrugging as he brushed at his fur to dislodge any of the single-minded little robots and shook his paw, "Oh well."

The short vulpine shook his fur and hair out, smoothing them down and admiring the effect of the swirls and slashes of color in his silvery pelt and locks, nodding to himself as he gazed in the mirror, covertly casting his eyes to the feline behind him as he adjusted his hair. Silver leaned toward the mirror, arching his hips and lifting his thick, white tipped tail a bit, letting it weave across the backs of his calves and knees. His motion made the feline chuckle, shaking his head as he watched the bushy tail swing sedately from side to side, "Does a slide normally need to seduce a customer?"

"I thought you were my boss now?"

"Well, it is a nice ass."

Riyo shrugged, tossing a tiny plastic cap to clatter into the sink, making Silver's ears and muzzle twitch toward it before he lifted his lean paw and flicked his wrist, rapping his palm across the bending fox's round backside with a muffled crack. The short fox yelped stridently and jumped, arching his back as he pulled his stinging rump forward, rubbing it hard as he growled, "Easy on the merchandise!"

The doors to the shower hissed open as Riyo grinned at the slender vulpine, gesturing, "Don't you want food?"

"Yes!"

Riyo punched the controls next to the doorway next to the head, exposing a walk-in storage closet, "If you want to walk around naked like Navi, I can't say I care, but if you want something to wear, pick something out."

Silver slid past Riyo into the closet, ignoring the containers and shelves for a series of garments hanging on flexible hooks, rummaging idly through them as he fingered the materials. The fox smirked gently as he felt the tall, lanky feline's presence at his side, slightly behind him. He inhaled as he felt the dark pelted male's paw slip down his back, his own fingers slipping absently from the clothing rack and resting against the bulkhead, supporting himself. Silver grunted gently as he felt Riyo's paw glide over his spine, stroking with surprising gentleness down, cupping the curve of his rump. He reacted without even thinking, shifting his feet apart at the ankles and bending a bit, pushing his hips backward. Riyo's chuckle stirred the fur on the side of his throat, "Well, you certainly have the conditioned reflex of a slide."

"You're rubbing my ass. What else should I do?"

"Oh, seems to me you're doing it already, aren't you?"

Silver bit his lip gently, shrugging as he squeezed the front of the feline's close fitting jumpsuit harder, feeling with some satisfaction the visceral response to his fingers, "You rub my ass, I rub what interests me, now that I have an equitable share in the equation, yea?"

"Seems so."

Riyo grinned lopsidedly as he idly ran his free paw down the vulpine's side and hip, letting the very tips of his sheathed claws glide through his fur, hearing the younger male utter a sharp breath, a tiny whimper parting his lips, "Slide no more, but old habits die hard?"

"Not a slide anymore, but I can still like what I do."

Silver's breath was hotter as he shifted; facing the feline who was head and shoulders taller than him, looking up into the chillingly blue eye and blank onyx orb on the other side of his lean, but handsome face. The gruff feline was relaxing on his home turf, almost seeming personable as the slender fox gripped the front of his jacket and pulled, "Sorry I'm so short."

"Sorry I'm so tall." Riyo smirked gently, leaning down till he was at eye level with the pretty little male, arching in surprise as the fox gripped him hard and thrust their muzzles together with a low, stomach deep growl. The feline relaxed swiftly into the embrace, holding the slender younger male close as they kissed hard and raw, the slender fox's warm, sweet breath invading his muzzle as Silver's tongue pinned his own and writhed in his muzzle. The older male's breath was muskier, tinged with old smoke as he returned the kiss just as energetically, nipping the younger male's lips and sucking his long, agile tongue gently as they kissed, finally breaking loose from one another when their breath ran out. Silver smiled, panting gently as he felt himself straining against the older male, "That was good. I had a policy of never kissing customers, or flexes."

"Yeah." Riyo faltered with a gentle cough, feeling the younger male's warm, tight, and abruptly hard body rubbing against him, gently reaching into the racks behind them and slipping a short, soft, charcoal colored robe loose, sliding it loosely over the fox's shoulders. The air in the small storage closet was thicker, scented with feral, rutting scents, making a heady perfume between the both of them as Silver slid his arms into the robe, feeling the slippery, faintly shiny material rest comfortably over his body. He swallowed as he pulled the loose robe around himself, hiding his own tense body for the moment as he tugged the belt into a slack knot at his waist, the hem of the robe dropping almost to his knees.

"Thanks." Silver licked his lips, feeling his ears flush as he slowly, and with some hesitantly allowed himself be led out into the corridor, trailing back to the flight deck where Navi was slumbering in a chair, his nude body tilted back, head lolling comfortably as he snored with a subdued buzz. Valentine was perched on his haunches in the main control seat, his surprisingly long, strong toes gripping the front edge of the seat as he fiddled and punched controls, looking up with his big brown eyes rolling to the pair as they entered, "Smells like sex, sex, sex. The ship's running good, good, just a course correction at the Way-Star in a day or two, then a week of nothing to do!"

The human giggled as he locked in the auto-pilot, letting the computer guide them through the whirling rainbow of hyperspace, watching the feline and fox as they tried to let their bodies relax, "Careful, careful foxy, Riyo has a big cock, big cock. Big cock for a tight little ass!"

"Valentine, shut up..."

Riyo rolled his eyes, pointing to the discarded jumpsuit, jacket and boots on the floor, "Give the junk in the pockets to Adam to sort, and then throw those into the fusion reactor would you?"

"Keep the jacket, keep it. It's nice and good color."

"Sure, just cut out all the ID marks and badges."

"Yeah, yeah, no clues, no spoilers."

The red haired human plucked up the discarded clothing, eyeing the fox for the first time since they'd come back into the flight deck, "Pretty now clean. Isn't that Azik's...?"

"No."

"It looks like Azik's."

"No."

The feline's glowering bark made the wide-eyed human flinch gently, nodding as he swung to his feet and padded off to the stairwell, his rat-tail swinging at his nape, "Sure, sure, was wrong, not Azik's... Fox's now."

"Yeah."

The abrupt tension was almost tangible as the feline scowled, watching the limber human go, "We're going to go get Silver here something to eat. Navi'll likely be hungry when he wakes too, send him along if he is."

"Gotcha, gotcha."

Riyo's glowering eased back a notch as he led the slender fox into a spacious dining room, with a wide, low set rectangular table, surrounded by swiveling chairs set into the deck plates, a bank of storage lockers along one wall, with a bank of coolers with sliding hatches and heating units ranged between them. Recyclers, processors and synthesizers filled the opposing corners as Riyo plunked the fox down in a seat and opened the coolers and stasis units, "So what'd you want sweetness?"

"One of everything, then two more!"

"Sounds good to me."

The tall feline withdrew a thick plastic mug from a cabinet and slid it beneath a spout set above a tiny sink next to one of the chillers, watching as a stream of steaming dark brown liquid cascaded into the beaker, sliding it across the table to the slender fox, "Here, coffee. A human favorite."

"Smells good."

Silver sniffed the cup, sipping from it and almost spitting the hot liquid across the table, "Tastes like shit..."

Riyo stifled a chuckle, "See those containers on the table? Sugar and creamer, mix those into it till you like it. It makes it better, though some humans drink the stuff straight up, I don't know how they do it."

The slender fox scooped some of the oblong blocks and cubes of sugar into the mug and added a long stream of the milky liquid the feline indicated, sipping experimentally till the steaming concoction was a blanched beige and tasted sweet rather then bitter. He nodded, "Better."

He watched Riyo open drawers and containers from the coolers and stasis units, uttering a groan of longing as he spied a thick slab of red meat being transferred from the cryo-stasis to one of the heating units, "Don't burn it!"

"I've been cooking since you were in diapers shorty, let me do my business!"

Soon the mess hall was filling with the aroma of cooking, with the feline tipping chunks of root vegetables and tubers into a pan, spicing them and dicing up some sweet and spicy peppers over then. He poked at the slab of meat sizzling sedately to itself in the cooker unit, the multi-spectrum heating coil searing the flesh delicately and making it pop with dripping fat. Just as the slender fox couldn't take it anymore the feline popped segmented dishes from the storage bin overhead and selected utensils from a drawer, slinging a low, shallow bowl of soup to the seated fox before sliding portions of the freshly cooked dishes onto the trays.

Silver picked up the heatproof bowl, sipping from it and feeling the warm liquid tasting faintly of meat slide down and warm his stomach. Riyo slid the wide tray in front of the fox, settling himself down next to him and lifting a fork, "You don't seem like much of a vegetable eater."

"I eat whatever, so long as it's good."

Riyo grinned softly as he watched the feminine fox settle into the food before him in a decidedly male fashion, using the fork given him only as much as an intermediary between tray and his muzzle as was necessary, tearing into the slices of meat with an almost lewd intensity, "If you fuck like you eat boy, you must have been popular."

The fox grunted, wiping his chin with the heel of his paw, swallowing loudly as he switched between his food and drink, "Well, if I went as long between fucking as I've gone between good meals lately, I'd probably win some prizes."

"Might hold you to that."

The first round of the meal passed in relative silence as the fox stuffed the space between his belly fur and his spine with gusto, offering mostly grunts and nods or shakes of his head to conversation. As Riyo was refilling both the fox's mug and tray Navi came stumbling in, his yawning muzzle parted in a beatific smile, "I smell food..."

"Yep."

Riyo passed a tray to the slim Vakari, pushing him gently into a seat where the feline proceeded to tear strips of meat between his fingers, eating in an almost mechanical fashion, gazing at the fox and feline with his bright violet eyes, "Food's good."

As he worked through the second helping in front of him the fox eyed Riyo over the rim of his mug, "So who's Azik?"

"My brother."

The feline's grunt was colorless as he lifted his shoulders an increment, "When pop died, we had a bit of a falling out. He knows where to find me, if he ever wants me."

"Understandable."

Silver pointed his mug at Navi, "You two served in the war?"

The spotted feline chewed, as his eyes casting thoughtfully between ceiling and tray as he pondered the question, then looking to Riyo, "Did we?"

"Yes sweetness. We did."

Riyo refilled his mug, "You were a navigator. I was a stalker."

"And you both... Got injured?"

"Yea, I lost an eye to a hopper. Navi got clonked on the head by a falling beam when his ship lost a bulkhead. Massive head trauma."

Navi looked up from his food, eyes wide, "Did I?"

"Yes sweetness. You were in a coma for about a year, so I read. The two hemispheres of your brain were knocked all out of whack, they had to do some pretty big surgery, now it's all routed through that lump of tissue you spotted butts use to navigate and shit."

A familiar metallic voice, tinged with irony rang out from the doorway, making everyone but Riyo jump, "He had widespread neurological trauma, his corpus callosum was heavily damaged, disrupting the neural impulses from one hemisphere to the other, so they had to route his higher functions through the bridged nerve bundle known as the panopticon sylerus in the Vakari species, the psychic center of the Vakari brain that allows them to navigate through 3 dimensional and hyper dimensional space so easily."

Adam focused his optical sensors on the spotted male, "Obviously routing his higher brain functions through both a malfunctioning corpus callosum and the organ that makes them slightly psychic was, while not a good idea, probably the best possible one, over drooling and staring."

The hunched metallic figure scraped closer, lifting Silver's drinking mug and staring balefully into it with his glowing optical sensors, "Organic beings... With your fur, and skin flakes, and follicles, and sweat and oils and blood and semen..."

The robot's voice pitched deeper, lacing with electronic distaste, "Leaving bits of yourself wherever you go, tearing off bits of dead, burned flesh, grinding it with primitive bits of enamel lodged in the bones of your jaws... Forcing it down a moisturized tube of flesh via muscular contractions to a boiling pit of organic acid you keep in a sac of mucus coated flesh just behind your sternums... I think if I had a digestive system, I'd feel nauseated..."

"No one asked you tin man..."

Riyo rumbled softly at the robot as Adam gingerly placed the mug back down, the robot simulating magnificently a startled jerk of his arm as Silver gently patted him, his soft pelt brushing the polished skin of metal, "Must be difficult Adam. Surrounded by organic beings, we are probably messy from a cybernetic standpoint."

Adam's head rotated on his neck slowly, delicately, with a humming sound as he pitched his glowing optical sensors down to the slender fox, deliberately turning his torso and releasing the locks on his lower limbs, that hissed with a soft release of hydraulics as the robot lowered himself down to almost eye level with the vulpine. Silver was suddenly aware of the deathly silence surrounding him as Riyo and Navi stared openly, swallowing his coffee as he felt the robot's surprisingly delicate fingers turn his body till they were facing one another almost eye-to-optical sensor. The robot's voice was abruptly higher pitched, laced with disbelief, "Let me get this straight. You," The robot indicated the seated vulpine with a tiny jerk of his polished finger, "Think, that living and existing, as an artificial being, with perfect, state of the art, regenerative physiology, a mind the size of some planets, an intellect that can barely be measured, encyclopedic knowledge of a hundred thousand species worth of anatomy, the practical medical and surgical knowledge and applications of several large medical libraries, find it difficult, to cohabitate with a sarcastic drunkard, a hyper-active ape, a borderline retard and now a former prostitute?"

Silver licked his lips delicately as Adam finished speaking, the robot's red optical sensor shrinking slightly as it focused on his face, "Well, um, yes."

Adam pondered this silently, a moment ticking by as his robotic body hummed and whirred softly, finally clicking his fingers open and closed gently one by one before he ratcheted back up to his normal height, locking his leg struts securely and gazing down at the seated fox. The robot gave the metallic equivalent of a snort and lifted his arm, patting the slender fox delicately between the ears before spinning and shuffling off, "Perhaps I'll let you live."

"I think he almost likes you." Riyo commented dryly over the rim of his coffee mug as he watched the short fox and Navi finish plowing their way through the remains of the meal scattered on the table. The spotted feline gnawed on the sugar crusted lip of his own mug, the faint scraping raising the fur on the back of Riyo's neck till he gently removed the drinking vessel from the other feline's paws and deposited a few of the lumps of processed sugar into them. There were times having the brain damaged Vakari around was irritating, those bad days when his brain went jaunting off on tangents all its own, but for the most part he was manageable and lucid. No one else had seemed all together eager to care for the damaged navigator, but no one else had wanted the hyperactive near-human or semi-psychotic robot either.

Silver watched Riyo ruffle the somewhat wild hair on the Vakari's head, grinning faintly as the spotted male's vivid eyes drifted into slits, the big meal making him groggy in his seat. The young fox stretched, standing and depositing his plate and mug into one of the nearby cleaners, the little unit humming sedately as it washed them, dried them and shunted them back into the storage cabinet. He giggled as Navi stretched over the side of the table, the pale featured feline staring up at the ceiling as he batted at Riyo's paws playfully, "That can't be sanitary."

The dark furred male shrugged indulgently, running his long, strong fingers down the exposed expanse of the Vakari's chest and belly, scratching idly. Navi violet eyes narrowed, purring loudly as he arched his back, sliding farther onto the tabletop till just his lower legs dangled over the edge at the knees, making Silver giggle. The slender vulpine gently rubbed a paw along the side of Navi's chest, feeling the spotted feline shift and wriggle gently at the attention. Riyo chuckled, stroking the reclining male's chest softly as he leaned forward, blowing over Navi's nose, making it twitch and wrinkle. He grinned lopsidedly at Silver, "He's like a big kitten some days."

The short fox nodded, hearing the spotted male rumbling in a luxurious purr, arching into their paws. Navi's head was tipped back, exposing the bright white fur on his throat, down to his pecs as he stretched, gripping Riyo's arms and tugging the darker furred feline closer. Silver giggled, watching Riyo slide forward in his chair, Navi's muzzle prodding him in the chest as they brushed against one another. The darker furred feline uttered a grunt, looking down, "No biting."

He looked at the slender fox, "Chomped me on the tit once when he was excited, that hurt like a bitch."

Silver perked his ears, "Oh, does he...?"

Riyo smirked, "Do you? Why shouldn't he? Not like he's going to get anyone pregnant."

"I suppose so."

The younger male shrugged, smiling, "I just wondered if he still had all his working parts."

"I think you can see that for yourself."

Riyo nudged the pale furred fox as he felt Navi's nose attempting to wriggle into his jumpsuit, pointing gently. Silver turned his head and blushed faintly through to the tips of his ears. The sight of the spotted male's hips and crotch now peaked with a lovely erection, straining at the circulating air in the dining hall. Silver giggled softly, shrugging, "Well, he's obviously still intact. Not a breeder, either, nice and smooth."

"I take it you've had plenty of experience with both, eh?"

Riyo's halfway lecherous grin made the slender vulpine flush again as he flipped his hair in a slightly disinterested way, "I suppose."

Silver smirked gently at the dark furred male, "He's almost precious compared to some of the brutes I've dealt with in my time."

The young fox watched the spotted male wriggle against the tabletop, the Vakari's lean paws tugging on Riyo's jumpsuit impatiently as his body showed his arousal openly. He ran his own paws over the expanse of Navi's gently ridged belly, feeling the expansion and contraction of the spotted feline's slightly barreled ribcage as he ruffled the thick cream and white fur stretched down the Vakari's torso from his chin to his knees. A pair of bright pink stiff tipped nipples showed through Navi's thick chest fur, set wide on either side of the thick ruff of his pelt down his breastbone. Silver idly flicked the tips of his fingers over the tense peaks of the reclined feline's nipples, rubbing them, giggling as the spotted male's back arched, thrusting his pectorals out nicely as Navi uttered a muffled rumble.

Riyo chuckled, watching the slender vulpine, "Careful, you'll set him off."

"So?"

The short fox met the dark furred male's gaze, grinning softly as he shrugged, deftly unbelting the short robe from around his waist and letting it slide down his arms and back, slithering to the deck plates before sliding his skilled paws down Navi's torso once more, "Can he fuck?"

"Like a deranged Metaran in heat, if he's of the mood."

"Good."

Silver gave the spotted male's nipples a gentle pinch and tug, hearing him gasp softly and rumble louder, Navi's muzzle abandoning the fight to worm inside Riyo's jumpsuit as the Vakari arched, his erection giving an almost painful twitch at the stimulation. The naked fox slid his backside onto the tabletop, scooting up against the Vakari's side, running his blunt claw-tips up and down Navi's sides and hips, feeling the feline's pale coat ruffle and slide through his fingers, stroking the wiry, almost skinny, but pleasantly lean curves and plains of the navigator's body. He watched the feline's flexing feet, the tiny twitches running through his strong thighs and narrow hips, the long, sleek, tapered cock jutting almost painfully from his crotch, nestled above a nice set of velvet furred testicles, a pleasant paw-full, looking swollen with arousal.

Navi's bright violet eyes were slits, his muzzle grinning blissfully as he shifted into the pressure of the fox's surprisingly strong, limber paws, breath hissing heatedly as the atmosphere in the dining hall tinged with the scents of arousal swiftly overpowering the lingering aroma of their finished meal. Tiny, crystal droplets of fluid welled from the tender slit at the tip of the spotted male's smooth, pink glands, oozing slowly as they gathered together in his arousal. Silver gently tapped the tip of the feline's cock with his fingertip, watching the clear dribble stretch into a long, viscous thread that shivered between the pad of his fingertip and the wet slit of the Vakari's glands as he pulled his finger back. The shimmering thread broke, congealing into a drip of warm, sticky fluid at either end of its former connection. A grin crossed Silver's muzzle as he licked the tip of his finger, tasting the slightly salty tang of sex, sucking his finger with exaggerated relish.

Riyo was grinning appreciatively, pointing to the Vakari's twitching cock, then to his muzzle, demonstrating by prodding his finger between his lips a few times, then winking at the short vulpine. He thrust his moistened finger down between Navi's lips, hearing the spotted male moan softly and start to suckle the strong digit wantonly, the Vakari's hips moving back and forth as he thrust them in tiny circles. Silver tucked his long, violet slashed hair back behind his ears as he slowly stretched his slim body out next to Navi on the wide tabletop, easing his torso onto the spotted male's belly and hip as he looked down, almost nose-to-tip with the Vakari's thrusting erection, licking his lips as he gazed sidelong at the pair of felines. For someone as long practiced in the arts of seduction and sexuality they were starting him off easy.

The slender fox gently eased his warm, soft paw around the base of the Vakari's straining erection, feeling the smooth skin, the subtle spider web of veins standing out and the gentle but insistent twitch of the spotted feline's heartbeat pulsing through his engorged member. A sigh of pure bliss lifted and deflated the laying feline's broad chest, tiny, eager sounds coming from his throat as Navi's hips arched upward, lifting his spotted rump from the table-top a scant inch. Riyo grinned at the response, rubbing Navi's muzzle and lips, letting the Vakari suck on his finger harder, "Yea, he's been a pretty good boy lately, maybe he deserves to blow off some steam. You'd like Silver to do that for you Navi?"

"Yes," The panting Vakari hissed, rumbling as he whimpered in longing, his body aching as felt hot from the tips of his ears to the tips of his toes. He groaned loudly as he felt Silver's slender paw grip him tighter, rubbing up and down slowly from the base of his cock to the tip. His violet eyes rolled up white in pleasure as he felt the slender vulpine's warm breath caress the exposed length of his sleek cock, panting in anticipation. The spotted feline gasped as he suddenly felt the feather light touches of a warm, wet, agile tongue start to flick at the dribbling end of his cock. The young fox's tongue was soft and smooth, teasing the tapering glands of the Vakari, flicking against it, using gentle, darting strokes, prodding at the slit at the end of his glands, rubbing it and spreading those moist little lips, getting another upwelling of clear, savory fluid.

The shudder of pleasure that rippled up Navi's spine was almost magical, making him groan and shiver, his tail thrashing like a wounded snake as his strong thighs twitched, making his hips hump upward in short, hard thrusts. Silver giggled as he swirled his deft tongue around the end of the spotted feline's cock, lapping up and down the twitching length, feeling it tense and tighten to diamond hardness. He slipped his paw between the Vakari's thighs, cupping those swollen, velvet fuzz covered balls, feeling them contract and shift against his fingers, kneading them, hearing the spotted male's moan raise an octave and break in a shuddery grunt. Riyo leaned over the tabletop, grinning as he watched, the front of his own jumpsuit now almost painfully distended, "Careful there slider, go easy on his balls or he'll pop like an overripe Trandi Plum."

Silver gave a pouting smirk, "But, I love a nice set of balls. Hope yours aren't as sensitive."

"You'll find out. But for the moment."

Riyo stretched out to his full height, shrugging out of his harness vest and jacket, unzipping his coverall all the way down to the juncture of his thighs, making Silver gape openly as the feline let his own erection flop from the gap opened in his jumpsuit. The near-human engineer hadn't been kidding, as the lanky feline's erect length could have more than comfortably been held in both the vulpine's paws with several inches left at base or tip, almost the width of three fingers at the base, with it's blunt tip pointing toward the deck plates where the blue tinted black length of his member curved down with its own weight. Riyo shrugged at the younger male, easing his length fully free from it's containment, and deftly tugging, letting his large black furred testicles hand loosely beneath as he looked down a the panting Vakari, "Look Navi, it's one of your favorite toys."

The grinning feline gently laid his thick cock against the side of the Vakari's muzzle, rumbling sedately as Navi rubbed his muzzle up and down against it, turning his head to lick and kiss along the long, blunt tipped member, purring contentedly. As the spotted feline opened his muzzle and took the first few inches of the lanky, dark furred male's cock between his lips, nursing it softly Silver shook his head, "Zeft Wept, your cock is gigantic Riyo. You got some T'kantis blood somewhere?"

"Nope, just from a long line of good solid stock."

Navi busily sucked the end of the thick cock between his lips, moving his hips in tandem with his muzzle, making Silver remember his own task as Riyo rested the front of his thighs against the edge of the table, leaning over Navi, dividing his attention between his own cock slipping in and out of the Vakari's blunt muzzle and the stimulation going on between the spotted male's legs. Silver bent his head, resuming his work, slowly lapping up and down the pink length held in his paw, getting the Vakari's cock damp and sticky as he smeared the dribbles of clear pre-cum down over the hot, tender skin in his grip. He swirled his tongue around the oozing glands, taking it between his smooth lips, slowly, deliberately bobbing his head a scant few inches, easing the sleek cock in and out of his muzzle, bit by bit, letting one inch get slick and moist with saliva and pre-cum before taking more of that length.

The slender vulpine worked his skilled muzzle up and down, bobbing his head, letting Navi's twitching cock slip effortlessly in and out between his lips, sucking it, letting his smooth tongue glide up and down against the underside of his member, squeezing and stroking its base. He added a squeeze and tug to the Vakari's aching balls as he worked, feeling those warm, swollen globes of flesh in their velvet sac slowly tensing, pulling up as the spotted navigator's passions peaked. Silver jumped as he felt a strong, long fingered paw on his ass, shivering hard as it brushed aside his tail dismissively and began to probe at the tight, tender ring of flesh beneath the base of his tail. He stifled a shrill moan as the primary of those long, lean digits pressed into his back-passage, penetrating him slowly, easing into him with a gentle, but insistent pressure, pushing past the tight, resisting ring of muscle holding his body closed to it, sliding into the tender core of his clenching body.

The slender fox shuddered, his body tingling as that seeking finger stroked his inner walls, zeroing in on the small bump of flesh within him and starting to stroke and prod it softly, making his entire body go rigid as he moaned loudly around Navi's cock, arching and bucking his narrow hips as the waves of pleasure pounding him swamped him, making him dizzy with lust, bending back to his task with animalistic fervor. The room was bristling with carnal tension, dense with the perfume of rutting, the grunt, growls and pants rising above the hiss and hum of the ventilation system and the powerful engines throbbing around them. Silver bobbed his muzzle harder, wriggling his smooth hips as he let the strong digit fuck his tight hole, stroking his internal pleasure trigger, his own body breathtakingly hard between his thighs, dripping steadily to the polished tabletop as his ass was stimulated and the heady scent of musk filled his nose.

He pushed his muzzle farther and farther down the Vakari's slippery cock, sucking it hard, feeling the lanky feline buck and thrash as his swollen balls tensed and pulled tighter, showing his climax was close now. The rumbling and wildly moaning spotted male was busily sucking Riyo's mammoth cock, his bright violet eyes screwed shut, his broad chest and belly heaving as he panted. The black furred male was getting fairly far along himself as the fore half of his thick erection vanished in and out of the spotted male's muzzle, his ebony length throbbing as it worked toward a roaring release. The panting vulpine pulled his wet, sticky smeared muzzle from the Vakari's twitching cock long enough to glance over at Riyo, his voice husky and slightly rumbling with saliva, "Hey, Riyo!"

The dark furred male was roused from his blissful reverie long enough to roll his eye toward the vulpine wildly sucking Navi's bright pink cock, "Yeah, what'd you... holy fuck!"

Riyo's bark of surprise was almost drown out by Navi's breathless yowl as Silver demonstrated his exceptional skills by pulling in a rasping breath then relaxing his muzzle and thrusting his bobbing head downward, taking the Vakari's sleek cock all the way to the root in one long motion, shoving it's pre-cum squirting tip down into his throat before swallowing gently, the reflex motion squeezing it in his hot, wet maw like a fist. The reaction was almost instantaneous as the nearly over stimulated Vakari arched like a bow, eyes rolling up white as he shuddered, losing control completely, his cock exploded into Silver's throat and muzzle in pumping jets of his hot, sticky essence. The slender fox pulled his muzzle back before he choked, relishing the feel of the sleek cock jerking and twitching between his lips as he sucked, swallowing the bursts of salty sweet semen flooding his muzzle.

Navi panted raggedly as the slender fox pumped and stroked his cock, milking it for every drop of thick feline seed, gurgling softly as he continued to suck wildly at the blunt tipped erection filling his own muzzle, moaning around Riyo's length as it twitched dangerously. Silver pulled his muzzle from the Vakari's cock with a wet noise, licking his lips and chin as little dribbles of the spotted male's semen dripped along his muzzle, watching intensely as he continued to knead and rub Navi's tightly retracted balls, grinning slyly at the lanky feline standing over both of them. Riyo's voice was low and husky as he grunted, moving his hips slowly in time with the movements of Navi's muzzle, "Yea, almost there Navi sweetness... Little more..."

Silver shifted, keeping one paw on Navi's sticky cock, rubbing it idly as he slipped his other paw around and started to knead and rub Riyo's big hanging balls, hearing the black pelted feline grunt louder as he arched, "Yeah! Yeah! Gonna cum boys... Now!"

The lanky feline uttered a growling hiss, biting his lip hard as he groaned, stifling his blissful yowl of climax as his long, thick cock gave a throb and his body erupted into tingles of electric heat, making him clench his lean paws, closing his eyes. The heavy cock in Navi's muzzle twitched hard and the freely dribbling tip erupted, shooting long, hard, thick bolts of heat into the reclining feline's sucking maw, swiftly flooding it before he could swallow, making the sticky white seed flow from the corners of his lips. Navi uttered a content rumble as he swallowed the familiar, salty pulses of the other feline's semen, moaning to himself as it warmed his throat and belly. Silver giggled and teasingly pulled the tip of the lanky feline's cock from the Vakari's muzzle, giving it a hard pumping squeeze, uttering a tiny squeak of surprise as the thick length spurted hard in a series of stuttering jets, splashing over Navi's face, throat and chest, almost reaching his crotch.

The pale furred fox grinned, licking his still sticky lips as he felt some of the black furred male's cum spray him, leaning and darting his tongue out, snaking it over the blunt tip of the feline's mammoth length, tasting Riyo's musky essence of life. He rolled it across his tongue like a connoisseur pondering a bottle of wine, giving the thick tip of Riyo's cock a hard suck, making it twitch and giving off another hard squirt before subsiding into dribble and drips of his warm silk. The lanky feline gripped the slender fox's nape, shuddering as Silver used his tongue and teasingly ran the tips of his sharp fangs across the over stimulated skin of his glands, making his entire body tense, "Easy little fox... Fuck that was good."

"We didn't even fuck. So that wasn't as good as it gets."

Silver favored the tall feline with a sly grin as he licked his fingers and lips, swiping up the errant drops of the felines mingled semen, giggling as he gazed down at the blissfully cooing and rumbling Navi, the spotted male's bright violet eyes rolling about unfocused as he basked in the afterglow. He leaned down and kissed the spotted male, tasting Riyo's musky semen on the feline's tongue and lips, vibrating softly as Navi prodded his tongue over his teeth and his own tongue, swirling them slowly as the Vakari embraced the slender fox, purring loudly. The lanky male towering over them chuckled as he looked down at the sticky faced pair, "I think he likes you."

"I sucked his cock. Not many people wouldn't like you after you've had their prick in your mouth and swallow their cum."

"We should have that engraved on a plaque for you sweetness."

Riyo stroked the heads of both feline and vulpine, gingerly unpeeling his cock as he chuckled, "I think we all need to wash our faces... and crotches."

"Won't Valentine be disappointed he was left out?"

Silver stood, brushing against Riyo as he reclaimed his robe and draped it over his shoulders. The tall, lanky feline shrugged, leaving his jumpsuit unzipped to the waist as he simply draped his jacket and vest over the back of one of their chairs, "He can help Navi take a shower. They'll fuck like Reitan rabbits."

"Okeydoke."

The young fox giggled, nodding as he watched Navi lick his fingers, dragging them through the wet spots of semen scattered over his chest and belly, "Should be fun for them."

"Yes, yes, it should."

Riyo gave his lopsided grin as he touched the slender fox on the lower lip, hissing softly in excitement as the younger male tipped his head and bit him hard enough on the finger pad to draw a tiny bead of crimson. Silver growled gently as he licked the tiny wound, sucking on the feline's finger. The lanky male chuckled, rubbing the fox's lip and tongue, "So where'd you learn that particular little trick you showed Navi?"

"Nasal breathing tubes and a full grown T'kantis cock. I thought he was going to dislocate my jaw."

The silvery furred fox shrugged as he smirked slyly at the lanky, still half naked feline pressing up against the lean but strong frame, giggling as he felt Riyo's strong paw slip beneath the hem of the short robe and caress his heart-shaped rump, giving it a squeeze, "So... Where do people sleep aboard this ship?"

"Well, Valentine has a hammock in the engine compartment, Navi sleeps in his tube on the flight deck, Adam usually uses one of the storage lockers below decks when he wants to do a power down. But, there are a few, nicer, more private places to sleep, if the cargo hold doesn't appeal to you."

"I slept in a ventilation and access tube, then a disused maintenance locker and I don't even want to discuss napping in the disused lavatory... I'd like somewhere softer than deck plates."

The slender vulpine screwed his muzzle up into a convincing pout, flashing his vivid green and gray eyes at the lanky feline who chuckled softly and nodded, "Well, then I suppose you can bunk with me, till you're inclined to or want different accommodations aboard."

"Yay!" Silver giggled, bouncing on the pads of his feet as he grinned, kissing Riyo on the lips, murmuring as the feline kissed back and their tongues met once more. The agile fox stood on his tip-toes, hanging onto the feline's shoulder as they kissed, making the older male inhale suddenly as his other paw snaked down and gripped his crotch wantonly, eliciting an almost instant reaction against his fingers. The feline rumbled as he nipped the shorter male's lip, "Randy little bitch, aren't you?"

The fox smirked as he shrugged, squeezing the feline harder, "You picked up an ex-slide, did you think I'd be celibate around a giant cock?"

"I had hoped not, no."

"Well, then. Love me for what I am then, a randy little bitch."

Riyo shook his head, letting the slender fox stay pressed up against him as he triggered the comm. unit mounted next to the dining hall doorway, "Valentine, Navi's in the dining hall. He got a little messy with his dessert. Would you mind helping him with a bath while I show Silver where he'll be sleeping?"

The unit beeped before the near-human engineer's voice echoed through it, sounding amused, "Sure, sure boss. Gonna go fuck the fox, foxy? Navi and I can play play in the shower. It will be fun, big fun."

Riyo clicked the comm. off, chuckling as he mounted the stairs once more, leading the giggling young vulpine down to where they had come through from the cargo loading and storage areas. A wide doorway set into the bulkheads near the stairs greeted them as Riyo jabbed the control pad next to it and the vertically split door slid part to allow them entrance to the feline's personal cabin. As the doors parted, the glow panels hummed softly to life, bringing up the illumination in the cabin, lighting the feline captain's personal sanctuary. The space wasn't large, but didn't feel cramped; it was oblong, fitting into the fore section of the transport beneath the bridge deck, with no sharp angles, almost organic in the sweeping bulkheads on either side and the flattened, vaulted ceiling above.

The deck plates below foot were padded in thick carpeting, a dim charcoal gray that matched the matte, insulated and padded coating of the ribbed bulkheads around them. The far end of the cabin held a large, rounded viewing port, showing the swirl of hyperspace before them, offering a wonderful scenic vista with a small kidney shaped desk bolted to the deck before the transparent metal window. The short desk held a viewing unit and a compact computer terminal, the polished plastic squatting above a spindly self adjusting chair that sat in its space saving compacted form. The starboard side of the cabin held an upright metal locker for hanging flight suits and jumpsuits, connected to a short drawer unit with 4 shallow drawers. A slightly wider set of open shelves reached hip height next to the dresser, filled with all manner of unusual items, objects of art and a set of bottles and decanters with a line of glasses held in place with a restraining strap.

The top of the shelves were filled with a pair of non-skid trays, velvet lined of dark wood. Silver perked his ears curiously as he examined the silver and brass instruments set equidistance from one another on the velvet mats; there was a palm sized disc of brass metal with the letters N, E, S and W engraved on the face along with two pointed needles beneath the lens covering. Next to it rested a triangular shaped brass device with an arc shaped graduated arm set between them with a tiny lens and a mirror set at oblique angles. Another large, discus shaped object was set into the velvet, silver in color, with a smooth face, the palm sized, crystal faced disc had two long needles that traveled in a circle around its face, inset with numbers, making the slender fox peer at it curiously, "What is it?"

Riyo chuckled, "It's a mechanical chron, from hundreds of years ago."

"Really? It's only got 12 hours on it..."

The slender fox looked slightly like he didn't believe the lanky feline, examining the slender tube of brass next to the watch, with a rounded tip and a short gold chain dangling from it. A small, brass, heavily engraved bell sat nestled into the velvet, about the size of a drinks canister, with a language on the plaque the slender fox couldn't read. The next object caught his attention the most of all of them, looking like a series of brass tubes set in a line so that they interlocked and slid into one another, with a pair of glass lenses set at both ends, the length bound in brass, "What are all these? They look triple old."

Riyo chuckled as he unzipped and unbuckled his boots, sliding them off and tucking them into the standing locker, unsnapping the stirrups on his coverall legs and unzipping the garment all the way down to the knee, slipping it down and stepping out of it to stand nude next to the slender male, "That one there, is a compass, it lets you know which direction you're facing. The triangle shaped one is a sextant... Oh stop giggling, it really is called a sextant, you use it to pinpoint coordinates using sunlight."

The feline pointed to the pocket watch, "That one's an old, old chron, that little one is a whistle, called a boson's whistle. It was used to announce a captain and give orders."

Silver perked an ear, giggling, "Kind of like having a Zeeg on board..."

"Heh, yea, I suppose so. That one's a bell, and that long one is a telescope. It lets you see things far off like a scanner scope."

"Interesting..."

The slender fox placed the small whistle back on its pad, smiling at Riyo as the feline ruffled his violet streaked hair almost affectionately. The black furred feline stretched, rubbing his thick, dark fur, smoothing out his hair, freeing the stubby ponytail that lay against his nape, "All those old things are part of what they called the 'nautical tradition' on some worlds. They are or were the stations of a captain."

Silver's attention turned to the last large item of furniture in the room, "It must be nice having your own ship. No one can tell you where to go, or what to do. Or make you do anything you don't want to."

There was a tinge of bitterness in the slender vulpine's voice as he gazed at the wide, comfortable looking bed. The frame was the same dense, dark colored plastic as the desk and shelves, with a rounded, padded lip in synthetic leather, the low bed was covered in slightly jumbled soft sheets of black material, with several fat, dark fabric covered pillows at the head and along the side, tucked against the bulkhead. Riyo chuckled at the look of longing on the short fox's face as he slid the locker shut on his hanging jumpsuits, scratching his fur idly, "Been a while since you've come across a decent bed?"

"Oh yes, a long time."

The slender fox shifted from foot to foot as he swirled the robe about himself, giggling faintly as he gazed around at the cabin around them. He'd shared a cramped, ill-lit and shabby dormitory with his fellow "workers", about half a dozen of them in that particular dorm. The squabbling and perpetual disrepair and disarray of people coming and going all hours of the day and night cycles wasn't particularly restful. They had been given beds, a moderate amount of serviceable if bland food, a bathing area and some small amount of jack for sundries, but life in the business had taken a distinct turn toward the unbearable as less attention had been paid to the pleasantries of keeping the workers happy. The cool cabin wasn't spacious or luxurious by many standards, but it was cozy and comfortable looking and the bed was an inviting distraction.

Riyo crouched to his haunches in front of the lower shelves, glancing behind him, "Make yourself, comfortable slim."

The dark furred feline gingerly eased the curved earpiece from behind his ear, placing into a small box and snapping it closed, picking up a small plastic canister with a screw-top lid, partially filled with a pale blue fluid. Riyo slid a small plastic wand from the side of the box where he had enclosed his earpiece, revealing a tiny suction cup at the end, grinning sidelong at the slender fox watching him from where he was seated on the edge of the bed, "Want to see a trick?"

Silver perked his broad ears, watching with a slight blanching as the lanky feline pressed the suction cup to the glossy surface of his onyx eye and pulled gently, making the orb shift in its socket, gritting his teeth slightly at the minor unsettling sensation. Silver suppressed a gag as there was an audible wet squelch and the ebony orb popped free from the wiry feline's eye socket, leaving a neat hole and cavity in his head. He unscrewed the canister and plunked the artificial eye neatly into the blue liquid, watching it swivel gently as it sank, screwing the cap back on and replacing the tiny suction cup. He slotted the canister into a small black matte base unit, letting it recharge and clean itself before rummaging in the nearest drawer, tugging out a soft, silken eye patch of dark purple and easing it around his skull, securing it with its elastic strap over the open socket covered by his closed eyelid, chuckling at the pale eared fox male, "Neat, eh?"

"Gross." Silver stuck out his tongue, wiggling it impishly as Riyo grinned, "Promises, promises. Want a drink?"

"God yes. Several!"

"A male after my own heart."

"And after your cock, too, I think."

The giggling fox watched as Riyo rolled his chillingly blue eye, pulling a tall, thick, red glass bottle loose from the restraining strap that held it in place, liberating two glasses and holding them between his fingers. He easily bounced back to his feet, stretching his toes on the soft carpeting, striding to the bed and offering the glasses to the sitting fox. Using his teeth the feline wriggled the rubberized cork from the bottle neck holding it in his muzzle as he tipped the bottle and spilled about 3 fingers worth of bright orange liquid into both glasses, then restopped the bottle, laying it within easy reach on the deck. The feline grinned and lifted his glass, then drained a gulp, feeling the thick, sweet liquor slide down his throat smoothly, and then start to warm his belly. The spiced liqueur smelled faintly of fruit and flowers, with a sharp twinge of cinnamon-like fragrance, "It's locally made in the Tetian system. Once it hits about 5 years old it's like liquid candy."

Silver licked his lips as he nodded, tipping another muzzleful back as he gazed at the older, rugged feline for the first time free from obstruction and clothing. When he wasn't slouching and cursing the tall feline was handsome, lacking an eye as he was, with a notch or two in his ears he would never be strikingly gorgeous, but he had a down-to-earth good look about him. Riyo's body was tall, rangy, broad in the shoulders and upper chest, narrowing down the belly and hips, with long thighs and legs, broad feet with one missing toe the fox noticed curiously. His arms were long, with dense biceps, lean forearms with his broad, long fingered paws. The lanky feline was lean, packed with dense hard muscle, but without bulk, a wiry frame, with his thick, sleek black pelt, seamed here and there with lighter streaks under his fur, gentle ripples of his coat showing the presence of scars dotting Riyo's hard form.

The dark furred feline's skull was broad on a strong neck, with a blunt, smooth muzzle, his charcoal colored lips and dark gray of his broad, flat nose, showing a slight dimple on one side where it'd been broken in the past. One side of his lips held another small scar, making it tweak that side of his smile upward slightly, exposing the tip of his fang. His high cheekbones melded upward to his temples, and forehead, topped with his mop of unruly shoulder length raven hair, sprinkled sparsely with a few unseasonable strands of steel gray that only showed if you looked closely. Riyo's large, expressive eye, melt-water blue was striking, making the fox wonder what he'd looked like with both blue orbs intact, gazing into the feline's intelligent, bright eye as the alcohol settled easily in his stomach.

Riyo's body was bunched with hard planes of muscle, matching the rugged, wiry curves of his arms, prominent pectorals and hard ridges of his stomach, flat down to where a ruffle of thick ebony fur sat just above his pubic ridge. Silver took in the weighty, thick black furred sheath hanging heavily below, matched by the large, round globes of tender flesh that dangled in their velvet sac beneath it. As he turned to pluck up the bottle from the floor Silver could see the lean bundles of muscle running down the feline's back along his spine, down to his narrow waist, and a tantalizing view of his smooth, hard, muscular buttocks. As Riyo filled their glasses once more the slender fox slid along and gently rested his elegant paws on the feline's broad back, feeling the flex of the muscular bundles. He rubbed slowly, hearing the older male groan, leaning back into the massage.

"Hard to get a good massage in this sector?"

"Would you want Adam giving you a massage?"

Silver giggled, "Fair enough. Finish your drink and lay down, I'll give you a nice backrub."

"I might just keep you around after all. I like a good backrub."

The dark furred male tipped his glass back and then laid it gently next to the bottle on the thick carpeting, grinning as he slowly rolled onto the soft, firm mattress, feeling it adjust to him as he settled down into it, stretching out comfortably to his full length, laying flat on his stomach and resting his chin on his crossed arms. He felt Silver's slender body ease up to him, gently straddling his legs at the knees as the young fox leaned forward over him, his paws stroking the dense muscles along his spine. The vulpine's surprisingly strong grip began kneading and rubbing into his back, stroking and massaging firmly and slowly. The blissful sensation of mild discomfort mixed with the enjoyable relaxation of his lanky frame made the feline rumble, smiling broadly.

Silver kneaded the tall feline's back, feeling the rangy muscles bunching and relaxing under his ministrations, enjoying the sensation of the handsome, strapping male beneath him responding to his paws. As he rubbed the slender fox leaned into Riyo, massaging up to his shoulders and neck, teasingly blowing in the feline's ear, "You know, in private when you're not acting like an asshole, you're actually pretty handsome."

"Handsome?" Riyo sounded amused, his voice muffled by his arms as he basked in the slow, gentle massage. He stretched, hearing his muscles creak, the subdued, rippling crackle of his back making Silver giggle, "You slouch too much."

"Well, if I were as short as you, I wouldn't have to."

The slender fox prodded the feline in the shoulder as he leaned more, biting the taller male on the ear, tugging it softly, "Meany."

"I thought I was an asshole?"

"At times, but you seem ok to me. You're a strange fox, someone you don't know, taking me to your ship and bed. I get the sensation you've been lonely for a while."

"Oh, probably. Valentine and Navi are good friends, sweet kids, but not the types that have the attention spans to shack up with, you know. They fuck well enough, but it's hard to get them to focus on things like conversations or serious topics in life."

"Where I come from no one ever wanted to talk about serious things. Only business, if they had one. But they didn't want to discuss their homes or families or know anything about you at all. Just to give you directions or tell you what they wanted."

A sigh made it from the slender fox's muzzle as he continued to knead the laying feline's shoulders, resting his slim muzzle between the older male's ears, nuzzling into his thick raven hair. He inhaled deeply, scenting the strong feline's smell, the sweet, slightly musky tang, the faint artificial scent of his soap and shampoo, the lingering tinge of things like leather and metal, coolant and oil, the subtle herbal scent of his cheroot smoke. The short fox rumbled faintly as he buried his nose into the feline's hair and fur, breathing deeply, sliding his fingers into Riyo's thick pelt, rubbing, and feeling the raven fur caress his digits, noting the dichotomy of Riyo's inky pelt with his own silvery white fur. The pleasant, masculine scent of the lanky feline settled into Silver's nose, bringing an odd mix of emotions to his mind. The fact that he barely knew the tall, somewhat abrasive feline and his odd motley crew of spacers, versus the soothing, comfortable feeling of safety the handsome male seemed to instinctively bring to him.

The short fox shifted softly, stroking through the feline's fur more, biting his lip gently, "Riyo..?

"Yes, sweetness?"

The feline eased his eye open, rumbling pleasurably as he stretched beneath the younger male. He tipped his head as the slender male gently rolled off him to one side and sat on his curved backside on the comfortable bed. As the lanky male rolled onto his side, propping his muzzle on his paw, Silver bit his lip gently, looking almost embarrassed. Riyo stroked his fingers down the feminine curve of the fox's hip, looking up into his luminous gaze, "What's on your mind sweet and short?"

Silver smoothed his long hair back, tucking it behind his ears as he slowly shifted over onto his hip, lying facing the feline, "Riyo, would you hold me?"

The feline was taken aback for a moment, perking his ears before he smiled, stroking the fox's muzzle gently, "No one's ever shown you any genuine affection before, have they sweetness?"

"Not really, no."

Silver sighed as he gently eased himself up against the lean feline's body, pressing himself into Riyo and circling the feline's waist with his arms, tangling his paws in the thick pelt lining his back. As he insinuated his muzzle into the crook of the feline's throat and shoulder he felt Riyo's long, lean arms enfold him, pulling him close. The slender fox bundled himself against Riyo, burrowing as close and as deep into his embrace as he could, feeling the strong feline stroke his back and nape. He closed his eyes, sighing contently, gripping the feline tightly, shivering gently as the older male cuddled him. The pleasant sensation of behind held was almost overwhelming to the young fox, feeling a strange tension building and relaxing in his belly. The odd tension flooded upward to his throat and Silver uttered a tiny clicking sound, swallowing hard as a small keening noise constricted his chest.

The slender fox bit his lip stridently as he felt a sudden, uncontrollable wash of tears slide from his eyes, dampening the sides of his muzzle and cheeks. He bit down on a shuddering breath as Riyo stroked the back of his nape and head, uttering quiet sounds of reassurance as the slender fox tried to get his sudden burst of emotion back under control. The feline stroked down the younger male's spine, rubbing gently, "It's alright sweetness. No one's going to hurt you. You're safe here, and you can start a fresh life."

"I-I know..." Silver sniffled gently, clearing his throat as he pressed himself harder against the lean feline, feeling Riyo's strong, handsome form against him as he ran his fingers through the thick fur of that ebony pelt. He felt safer in the feline's arms than he had in years, allowing the older male to shield him and hold him as he'd never really known before. The lanky feline had saved him from being a fugitive, hadn't struck him, hadn't threatened him, in anything more than a playful, teasing way, hadn't demanded his ass as payment, given him food and drink, bathed him, and taken him to his personal quarters. The pale fox didn't know quite what to feel, just relaxing into the feline's strong embrace.

Riyo stroked the younger male's hair, giving him a comforting squeeze, "Just relax kiddo. I think you've earned enough of a respite for a while, then you can decide what you want to do from here on out."

The slender fox nodded, pressing his muzzle into the soft, warm fur on the side of the feline's throat, composing himself as the older male stroked his back and hips. He smiled softly as he felt Riyo's lean paws gently run over the curve of his hips and back-side, gently pressing himself closer to the taller male, feeling himself cradled by the older male's lean, muscular body, gingerly running his own fingers over the planes and curves of wiry muscle beneath the feline's thick, dark pelt. Silver gently caressed the seamed cicatrizes and puckered scars spread over the older male's rangy form, idly rubbing the small scar that tugged up the feline's lip, then slid his fingertip over the older male's lower lip, "You have a lot of scars."

"I've led an interesting life."

"I haven't."

The short vulpine's vaguely wistful tone made Riyo chuckle, "Yeah, but at least you're not covered in scars, so you're pretty enough."

"You're handsome... At least I think so."

Silver blushed cutely as he pressed his nose into the reclining feline's shoulder, making him chuckle. Riyo uttered an amused rumble; stroking the side of the vulpine's muzzle and throat, making him tip his head, closing his eyes and affecting a content sort of growling huff. The feline shifted, sliding back a rectangular section of the padded bulkhead, exposing a small control pad, stroking a few of the touch panels; making the view port dim till the swirling vortex of rainbow streaks was a muted flow of color, the overhead glow panels dimming almost completely as small glow orbs arranged around the cabin turned on, emitting a cool, diffuse blue glow around them, casting soft, shifting shadows and the ventilation system adjusted itself, pumping out cooler air, letting a pleasantly refreshing breeze drift around them. Riyo thumbed the controls for the bed, feeling the adjustable mattress expand slightly and soften, cradling them both pleasantly without sinking into the mattress to a stifling degree.

"Pretty fancy set-up, you have here."

Silver gazed around at the soothing, non-glaring lighting, giggling softly in amusement, as his silvery white fur was almost luminous in the blue glow of the orbs surrounding them, where-as his violet highlights showed almost black in the cobalt shine. Riyo's dark pelt was almost like sleek shadow, his glossy fur throwing off reflections of the blue lighting, but only the insides of his ears, teeth and chilling blue eye showed out brightly in the glow. The lanky feline nodded, smirking gently as he stroked down the fox's nape, pressing against him more as he leaned into the slender male's warm, soft paws. They touched their muzzles once more, Silver pressing his smaller, more slender, but more pronounced one against the feline's broader, blunter one.

Their kiss was tentative again once more, their lips and noses brushing back and forth gently as they leisurely explored one another's bodies. The brushing of their lips slowly grew more intent, pressing, rubbing, parting to slightly open muzzles as Silver's long, agile tongue probed at the older male's sharp teeth, flicking across the points of his fangs as they shared their breath once again. Riyo allowed the younger male to explore his muzzle, the vulpine's slim, warm tongue pressing past his teeth and slipping into his muzzle proper. That deft, moist appendage danced over his teeth, twining with his own tongue and explored the ridges of the roof of his mouth. The feline sucked on that skilled tongue gently, grazing it gently with his fangs as he thrust his own tongue into the fox's slender muzzle, feeling Silver suck it gingerly. Their deep, thrusting kisses lasted for a long moment, leaving them slightly breathless, kissing and nuzzling into one another's muzzles and throats warmly.

Riyo could feel the slender fox responding to their kissing, the tiny shivers of the feminine body against him, the subtle arching of the hips and thighs, the curve of Silver's back and nape, warm ears as they blushed brightly combined with the restless motion of the vulpine's paws and fingers. He could feel and smell Silver's arousal, the sweet, musky scent of the younger male pressed tightly against him, the surest sign of the fox's desire digging into his hip as they kissed and caressed one another. The feline shifted a bit, moving his hips as he rubbed an idle fingertip over the sleek, pale arousal jutting from the slender fox's body at the junction of his thighs. The bright furred fox uttered a gasp, muffling the tiny groan as he bit his lower lip, his body arching automatically into Riyo's gentle caresses.

The dark feline chuckled softly at the burst of shivering trembles that cascaded along the smaller male's back and hips, making his fluffy tail bristle and shake, giving a hard twitch. He gently eased his long fingers around the sleek, tapering erection now jutting into his hip like a diamond tipped drill, feeling it twitch softly, a warm, sticky dampness already coating the vulpine's glands. The feline stroked the slippery, clinging fluid up and down the length of Silver's cock, making it slick in his paw. The younger male buried his muzzle into the feline's throat as he shuddered gently, basking in the long, strong fingers stroking his aching cock, the firm grip, but slow, sensual, deliberate movements. His body buzzed in pleasure as his own testicles jerked up hard, moaning louder into the thick pelt muffling his muzzle as Riyo pushed his tightening sheath back all the way, exposing the swiftly swelling bulb of exquisitely tender flesh at the base of his cock before it could get bound up.

Riyo's voice was soft, amused yet husky with his own arousal as he kissed Silver's throat, "You're ready to blow already... Shit, no one had ever heard of a reach-around where you worked?"

"No," Silver shook his head, biting his lip as he struggled to clench his muscles, keeping them strung taut, that swollen orb of flesh at the base of his cock threatening to send him crashing over the edge of control as Riyo squeezed and stroked it. The faint, bestial grunted response was all he trusted himself to give without losing control over his thoughts. The lean feline chuckled softly again, his warm breath stirring Silver's hair, "Be as loud as you want sweetness, scream your head off, the bulkheads are soundproof."

Riyo felt the shivers, the shuddering twitches running up and down the slender vulpine's body, hearing him pant raggedly as that pale cock throbbed in time with his heartbeat, that knot at its base swelling hard, aching to release a torrent as the fox's cock-tip drooled like a leaking faucet all over both of them. He felt Silver bucking, instinct making the lithe vulpine's hips ignore his attempts at restraint, pushing and jamming that diamond hard cock harder and faster into his squeezing, stroking paw. He grinned as the younger male's volume was growing louder and more ragged with each raging second; knowing when the fox finally crested the peak it was going to be spectacular. Riyo shifted, kissing the slender fox on the lips hard, muffling his desperate whining moans before pulling back, "The sheets are stain-proof, but would be a pity to waste something as good as this is gonna be eh slip and slide?"

The grinning feline rolled Silver onto his back, quickly sliding down the soft bedcovers and thrusting his muzzle into the slender fox's crotch, clamping his muzzle around the tip of his thrusting cock, containing the squirts of clear pre-cum as he closed his own paw around the bulb of twitching flesh at the base of Silver's erection. Squeezing tightly, Riyo rubbed and sucked the pumping glands between his lips as it matched the vulpine's straining hips in their frantic thrusting as the younger male's lower half humped into the sensations. The result was almost immediate and spectacular as Silver's slender paws closed on his skull and nape in a death-grip and the fox's muzzle opened in a shrill, earsplitting howl of ecstasy laced with a broken string of lurid half words and curses, some in a language Riyo didn't recognize.

Riyo inhaled sharply as Silver shuddered hard and moaned loud enough to make his ears ring for a split second, the fox cock trapped in his muzzle exploding in a series of thick, hot, sticky bolts of semen. The younger male's eyes rolled up white as his entire body clenched so hard his muscles crackled, days of pent up sexual tension making it feel like someone had jammed a live wire against his spine. He was lost in the rushing orgasm as he felt Riyo's own experienced muzzle sucking him dry, his balls attempt to turn themselves inside out with the dazzling explosion of cum making his entire crotch ache.

Silver shuddered, panting raggedly as he fell back, his chest heaving, making his hips rock and squirm with the subtle ministrations of the feline paws on his crotch. The younger male's cock didn't soften a bit, remaining at a diamond hard, stiff attention as the dark furred feline licked his lips idly, grinning lopsidedly, "Not too bad slide."

"Oh shut up." Silver smirked as he flung his slightly dampening hair from his eyes, inhaling and exhaling deeply, focusing his bright eyes on the reclining feline, seeing his own seed dappling the older male's lips and muzzle, "You have something on your face."

"Wonder how that got there."

"Oh shut up."

Silver growled softly, rolling over against, then on top of the reclining feline, smirking down into his upturned muzzle. The slender fox kissed Riyo, shivering as he tasted his own seed, rubbing his paws up and down along the older male's chest, feeling it flex and shift as they pressed into one another. Riyo's paws slid down, cupping the fox's smoothly curved rump, giving it a squeeze, making the younger male moan softly into his muzzle. The fox's diamond hard cock rubbed against Riyo's hip, prodding into him insistently as the feline nipped his lower lip playfully. Silver could feel the feline's own mammoth erection trapped up against him, uttering a soft growl as he held himself against the taller male and shifted his hips hard.

The fox's motion made Riyo stiffen slightly, arching upward from the bed as his heavy cock was manipulated by the slender male's gyrating body, grinding between them, their mingled pelts stroking the sensitive skin all along its shaft. The feline rumbled pushing back against Silver as the fox continued to move his hips, grinding and bucking them wantonly, making the bed move with his mock thrusting. The black furred male shifted, freeing his trapped tip and slipping his thick cock down between Silver's thighs but the grinning fox shook his head, giggling and restraining the taller male with his paws, "Uh-uh, not yet you don't."

The younger male wrapped both paws around the feline's heavy, damp tipped cock, growling playfully at Riyo, "You think you can torture my cock so magnificently and get away with it? Without some payback?"

"Well who's the hooker here? You or me? Don't you normally have to do what your customers want you to?"

"I'm not a slide anymore, remember? I'm having sex for fun now. So I can do whatever I want. So shut up."

Silver stuck his tongue out at the lanky male beneath him on the bed and wriggled backwards, straddling Riyo's knees and leaning over his thighs and hips, excitedly gripping the mammoth cock in his paws, slipping one paw down to the feline's hefty balls and cupping them as he pumped that thick, heavy dark skinned erection with his nimble fingers from base to upper shaft. Riyo's cock was beautiful, a blue-tinged black, with slightly lighter glands, thick and broad at its blunt tip, the rounded end leaning to one side as Silver squeezed the thick shaft. The feline's shaft was as thick as his tip, with a slight narrowing toward the base, making his entire cock curve just slightly with its own weight, making the spider web of veins lining its length stand out when the slender fox squeezed and pumped.

The air in the cabin was thick with musk and excitement, the glowing blue lights rippling off Riyo's fur and making the fox's pelt shimmer softly, the feline's cock tinged even more blue as Silver worked, making the taller male yelp gently as his eager paw squeezed the large, swollen orbs of his sex between Riyo's thighs, "Easy on the balls Shorty! You twist them off and they won't work anymore."

"Shut up your big baby, who's the expert here? Are you always so irritating during sex?"

Silver lowered himself down idly till his nose was brushing the tip of Riyo's thick cock, making the feline inhale. The lanky older male rumbled, making the fox think his mind was elsewhere as he flicked his tongue out and slapped it across the blunt tip of the older male's erection. The fox smirked as Riyo laid a paw between his ears, rubbing slowly, "Not always."

"Good. Then I won't have to bite you on the cock."

The slender fox rumbled to himself, settling in as he slowly ran his tongue up and down the mammoth cock in his paw, lapping over it like a popsicle, squeezing Riyo's swollen balls gently as he tugged them, rolling the pair of orbs against one another in their warm, velvet furred sac. He seldom had the luxury of enjoying a big cock like the older male's at his own leisure when working. Most male's with giant cocks that came past him had small brains and the usual routine of jam it in an end, thrust and cum was so mechanical, so uninspiring and so predictably boring the young fox usually didn't even have to devote much thought into the act past making a convincing amount of noise to satiate the big dumb males' sexual ego. If he screamed loudly enough with their ham-fisted thrusting and called them silly pet names when they were done he usually got a fairly handsome tip but little enjoyment to explore a handsome cock when it came his way.

Silver glanced up at the feline prone beneath him, smiling at the look of pure bliss on the older male's face, feeling Riyo's tight, lean body jerking and twitching to his subtle caresses and the dancing of his tongue all along that steadily thumping feline cock. He ran his tongue slowly over the broad, blunt glands, using it to tease and flick the tiny lips of the slit in Riyo's cock-tip, parting them and licking deliberately, in long, slow motions as his paws stroked and squeezed. Beads of warm, musky pre-cum were welling from the feline's broad cock and Silver savored them as he swept them up with his tongue, swirling it around the blunt tip. The feline shivered, rumbling deeper in his chest as he arched his back, holding onto Silver tighter, his long, strong fingers buried in the fox's tumbling cascade of bright hair, gripping lightly.

The younger male bobbed his muzzle, taking the thick feline cock between his lips in short, smooth down-ward thrusts of his skull, sucking hard as he worked down that thick shaft. He let Riyo's mammoth cock slide in and out of his muzzle in a fluid bobbing motion, taking it an inch at a time, letting the heavy length get slippery an inch at a time, pushing it deeper and deeper as he breathed deeply, relaxing his muzzle and throat. Silver panted through his nose, feeling his own body twitching and shivering in lust as he worked his muzzle up and down. He could feel the throb and pulse of the feline's heartbeat through the mammoth erection pushing farther and harder into his muzzle, sucking it hard, closing his bright eyes as he relaxed and focused on pleasing the lanky feline.

Riyo's breath was fast and ragged as he held onto the slender fox, his belly roiling with heat and tingles of electricity washing up and down between his thighs, making his cock jerk softly of its own accord. The feline groaned as he could feel the subtle sensations of his erection pressing back past Silver's muzzle, into the slender vulpine throat. The pressure and wet, heated sucking sensation as the smaller male's throat flexed and gripped the object beginning to slip down into it. Riyo could feel the fox's body trying to swallow, the wetness of his maw gripping his cock-tip hard as Silver fought hard not to gag around the mammoth length invading his throat.

With a deeply drawn breath and a tiny gurgling sound Silver pressed his muzzle down hard, making Riyo twitch hard and utter a surprised grunt. The slender fox's muzzle slowly slid all the way down, not stopping till his nose was shoved into the thick ruffle of fur extending down the center of the feline's taut lower belly, his slippery lips now wrapped completely around the very base of Riyo's thrusting cock. The result was spectacular as Silver's throat gave a reflexive spasm around the feline's huge cock, gripping it like a fist. Riyo hissed in blissful shock as the slender fox gagged gently, just making his muzzle and throat tighten around that mammoth erection even more before his eyes began watering, his breath almost gone and he was forced to pull back till just the broad glands was within his muzzle.

"Fuck!" Riyo groaned loudly as he felt that spasming grip abruptly slipped down from the base of his cock to the tip, then the looser feeling of just the slender younger male's muzzle gripping him. He shivered hard; his cock giving a jolting twitch as he almost let loose right then and there into the younger male's muzzle, but kept himself reigned in check as he shivered. Silver's bright eyes were streaming as he panted through his nose, taking another deep breath and slipping that mammoth cock back down all the way to the root into his muzzle. As the slender fox found his stride it was easier to take the feline's thick cock all the way down to the base and back in a series of smooth, hard thrusts of his skull.

"You're gonna make me cum..." Riyo's eye rolled as he shivered, gripping Silver tightly by the nape and hair, his dark furred hips moving of their own accord as the younger male sucked and throated his dangerously pulsing cock. The slender fox shifted his head fractionally, nodding with just a scant twitch of his skull, gripping the lanky feline's balls and tugging them as he sucked harder, if such a thing were possible. He growled, letting it vibrate the thick prick rammed into his muzzle, sucking the twitching flesh and savoring the panting, ragged noises coming from the strong feline beneath him. Silver expressed his desire more emphatically with tiny whining noises punctuating his forcefully bobbing muzzle and groping, squeezing, kneading paws, the sounds of wet suction growing louder as he pulled back from the base of the feline's cock and sucked just the fore half of the mammoth length, pumping it wildly.

The ministrations resulted in a loud, groaning yowl, the lean body beneath the furiously working vulpine arching and shivering tightly, bucking in spasm. Silver closed his eyes in bliss as he worked and stroked harder, feeling Riyo's body hit its peak and topple over it, the throbbing cock between his lips giving a series of hard, twitching jerks as a flurry of thickening pre-cum squirted into his muzzle, then the feline's mammoth erection exploded into a raging series of jets. He felt the older male's balls jerk up tight as the feline orgasmed, the torrent of hot, sticky feline cum pulsing into his greedy maw in hard, silky bursts, each one in tandem with the muscular contractions of Riyo's sex.

Silver's eye-lids fluttered as he savored the sweet, salty taste and deep, sharp musk of the feline's thick seed, swallowing it greedily. He pumped the thick black cock twitching in his paw, milking the gasping older male for every drop he could get, not stopping till the feline was rasping for breath, yowling softly at the sensation of the sticky fox muzzle making tingles of uncomfortable electricity jolt through his hyper-sensitive prick and aching balls. Riyo grabbed the wildly sucking fox by the ears, groaning loudly as Silver squeezed his tight, aching balls, "Easy, easy, gods damn it, easy fox! Let me breathe!"

The panting young fox relinquished his grip around the feline's thick cock reluctantly, growling heatedly as he looked up, his bright eyes gazing in barely veiled lust. Silver licked his lips and muzzle, trying to get every drop of the thick seed dotting his muzzle, "You can't be done yet! We just started."

"Just stop trying to suck my balls out through my cock slide... Fuck, I haven't been blown like that in a long, long time."

"Quit whining."

The slender fox grinned, keeping a paw wrapped around the feline's thick cock, squeezing it and making the tip swell, twitching in time with Riyo's heartbeat. The feline rumbled in an amused consternation, "Find something you like?"

"Mine now."

Silver smirked, slowly swinging his leg across Riyo's waist and straddling him with a giggle, letting his weight fall down into the feline's middle with a bounce. The older male uttered a soft oof, tensing his abdominal muscles to take the brunt of the slender male's weight, making his ridged belly and nicely solid pectorals stand out invitingly as he slipped a paw around the cracked the giggling fox on one side of his heart-shaped rump. The muffled spank made Silver arch, squeaking in a mingled groan of protest as he lunged down against the reclining feline and kissed him hard, settling his lithe form down against the rangy body beneath him. He pushed his smooth ass back, arching his hips and snugging Riyo's thick cock right up into the cleft of his backside, lifting his bushy tail deftly.

The vulpine's constantly moving, grinding and bucking hips made it obvious what he craved, his sleek, rock-hard erection prodding and rutting up against the feline's belly didn't leave much to the imagination either as they kissed and moved their muzzles back and forth. Riyo nibbled the slender fox's lip as he ran his long fingered paws up and down the slim body draped over him, feeling Silver shiver and grind into him harder with the caressing and stroking. He smiled with his lopsided grin, "You're a horny little thing aren't you? Must've been popular."

"I wasn't a star attraction, but I was good with regulars. But when I find something nice, I wanna fuck it."

"Think it'll fit?"

Riyo chuckled, reaching down and swinging his heavy cock by the base, making his thick shaft spank against the fox's upturned rump, the sticky black skin of his length caressing the pale, tight ring of skin beneath the vulpine's tail-base, making him shiver and moan softly into Riyo. The slightly sticky tapping of skin on skin was drown out as Silver moaned, feeling that mammoth cock rapping against his tail-ring, pressing back against Riyo's blunt glands. He bit his lip, breathing in deeply, trying to relax and steady his narrow hips, closing his bright eyes in anticipation. The slender fox whined gently as he felt Riyo arch beneath him and press forward and up, the feline's thick cock tip starting its inexorable push.

The slender vulpine wriggled gently, desperately trying to relax as Riyo's glands pressed against that smooth, tight ring of flesh leading into his body, his whine pitching higher as a flare of pain lanced up his spine. He groaned, clutching against the lean feline beneath him as Riyo's glands pressed harder, the pressure building around his cock-tip. The resistance of the tight ring of muscle trying to keep his length from its ultimate destination peaked, then with a sudden jar evaporated and Silver shuddered, uttering a high pitched squeal of discomfort, gritting his teeth. He tried to override his body's automatic reflex of clenching tight and pulling away from the spear of pain, pressing into the thick cock pushing into his body and forcing himself to relax. That wash of discomfort turned into a tingle of nagging pressure as his body slowly relented to the massive cock invading it.

Riyo's chilling blue eye narrowed as he gripped Silver's hips, holding him firmly, guiding the shivering fox's rump as his thick cock slowly slid into the younger male's body an inch at a time. Silver felt his own weight drawing him down, moaning shrilly as he shivered hard, focusing on the sensation of Riyo's huge cock spreading his tight tail-ring wide and easing into him, that tight, heavy length impaling him deeper and deeper. The moaning and thrashing of Silver lessened as he slid down Riyo's ebon cock, giving out a loud groan of relief as his hips settled down against the feline's muscular hips, coming to rest flush against him. The vulpine let his head fall to the feline's chest, whimpering gently as he felt his body twitch and shiver with the discomfort and pressure of being impaled on that massive length, "Fuck... You-your cock is gigantic... Be gentle..."

Riyo opened his ice-water blue eye, his pupil contracting as he focused on Silver's shaking voice, stroking the shivering younger male's back and nape. The slender fox's body was heaven, hot and tight, gripping the entire length of his thick cock like a living glove from tip to base, clenching slowly as it adjusted to his size. He could feel the vulpine's muscles twitching and fluttering as they tensed and relaxed, matching the fox's whimpering and moaning. It had been a long time since the rangy feline had been completely balls-deep in someone, feeling the carnal rutting lust building in his belly and chest as he gazed at the beautiful fox impaled on his prick, running his long, strong fingers through Silver's long hair, kissing him along the throat and down to his collar-bone.

The rangy feline slowly moved his hips once, experimentally, the instant result being the vulpine clenched around his cock squeezing him like a vice and moaning shrilly, "Oh, slow Riyo! Slow, please!"

"Of course sweetness. Slow and easy for the slip and slide."

The ebony pelted male rumbled in bliss as he moved his lower half slowly, an inch at a time, feeling the vulpine's tense muscles relax after a handful of tentative thrusts. He slowly moved his muzzle, nipping along Silver's shoulder and up to his throat, kissing and biting it tenderly, sucking with each nip. The rangy feline slid his paws up and down over the slender fox's body, feeling him shiver and arch, stroking the thick ruffle of fur running down Silver's breastbone before toying with the younger male's perked, pale nipples. Riyo tugged Silver's hard nipples, squeezing them gently, making the fox moan louder. He grinned, moving harder and quicker against the younger male, bucking his hips, making his thick cock slip in and out of the tight tail-ring gripping him tightly, trying to make it relax.

Silver moaned raggedly, shifting his hips, hooking his heels up under the bucking feline's knees, giving him more leverage to thrust up and down on the massive length inside him. The nagging, full sensation of pressure within him eased quickly into tingling shivers of pleasure. He savored the feel of the massive cock impaling him, the tense spear of flesh within him diamond hard once more, invading him, filling him up. The shivering fox panted, raising and lowering himself on the feline's thick cock, riding it slowly, slipping upward, clenching tight, then letting his weight pull him back down, grunting breathlessly as Riyo's cock was sheathed into him to the root.

Words were forgotten, minds blank with the cresting waves of lust, the only sounds coming from both males was the panting rasp of their breathing, punctuated with moans and grunts, feral noises of primitive pleasure. The almost bestial rutting spurred faster and faster, deeper and harder, the panting fox slamming and crashing down against Riyo as the rumbling feline's bucking hips rammed upwards, battering Silver's smooth ass. The feline's tight, swollen balls slapped up against the younger male's rump and tail-base, making it tingle in pleasure. Silver bucked his hips hard, grinding them savagely to twist and tug the massive cock within him, clenching down like a fist, basking in the growling rumble deep in Riyo's chest as they clashed together.

The younger male's fox cock was taut once more, throbbing, drooling warm droplets of pre-cum down its length as he slashed a sticky furrow through Riyo's belly-fur. His trapped balls were tight getting close as the bulb of flesh above them began its gradual expansion once more, marking how close the young fox was to another orgasm himself. The feel of Riyo's heat trapped within him, the feline's strong paws roaming his body, and the almost tangible air of rutting lust and musk floating around them had the fox's senses reeling as he shivered, clutching at the rangy body beneath him, "Oh yes, fuck me, fuck me hard! I want it, that gigantic prick in me; I wanna feel you inside me!"

"Fuck yea..."

Riyo growled, gritting his sharp teeth as he spanked the younger male's thrusting, wriggling ass, his thick cock sliding easily now, plunging in and out, his orgasm rushing mind-bending close as they clashed together. He bit down gently on the side of the fox male's throat, making him moan stridently, tugging and sucking hard, panting out loud and raggedly. The feline's hips shivered, humping wildly as he felt the familiar rushing waves of heat and electricity building in his thighs and belly, jolting along his spine and down his tail, making it thrash. The feral rutting reached a peak as Riyo arched, tense, his head swimming as the rush of visceral need exploding through him. He yowled, the noise muffled by Silver's throat, slamming his mammoth cock as deep as it could go into the clenching fox before it jerked, exploding into the fox's body.

Silver howled in tandem with the bucking feline, feeling the jetting eruption of heat slamming through his insides, filling him, the bursts of feline silk burying themselves deeply into him. He shuddered, clenching down tight, grinding his narrow hips, tugging the mammoth length spraying inside him, milking it as he gasped for breath. The stuttering squirts of heat within him slowed, but the slender fox stiffened, feeling Riyo's paw close around his own thrusting cock, jerking it. Riyo kept bucking his hips, slamming up against the slender fox squirming in his lap, angling his blunt cock-tip so it slid and prodded up against Silver's prostate, making him tense even tighter.

The ebon furred feline watched the bucking fox, savoring the sight of the slender younger male arched down against him, Silver's narrow hips and strong thighs taut, his flat belly and rounded pecs standing out as his chest heaved, his delicate muzzle thrown back to howl breathlessly in bliss. Riyo's cock impaled the slender fox's ass deeply, sliding in and out easily with the seed spilled lubing their bodies. As the feline's cock-tip banged into Silver's internal trigger he stroked the fox's sleek length, pumping it tightly, feeling the tight, hard throb of it clenched in his grip. The slender younger male was squirting pre-cum, dribbling copiously over Riyo's ridged belly as his small knot swelled once more, the tender bulb of flesh springing up swiftly with his arousal.

"Oh God," Silver howled gently, moaning as he pressed into Riyo's strong body, shivering and jerking as he tried to ride the feline's mammoth cock harder in time with his own climax rushing over him, the bursts of tingling heat rushing through his belly, thighs and down his spine. The younger male's second climax was less frantic than his first, but just as enjoyable as Riyo pumped hard, flexing his hips and driving his cock into the fox's clenching, fluttering body. The howl of ecstasy wasn't as ear-splitting, muffled by Riyo's throat as Silver pressed his nose into the feline's shoulder and just held on, letting his hips jerk of their own accord as his cock jerked in Riyo's paw and exploded, erupting into hot bursts of vulpine cum.

Riyo groaned as Silver's body squeezed him once more, rippling around his thick cock, rumbling heatedly as he felt the fox's jerking cock spray him with semen from chin to belly. The slippery white jets stood out against the feline's inky pelt, leaving long wet furrows as Silver shuddered, panting and whimpering, slowly relaxing down against Riyo, burying his slender muzzle against his throat. As they slowly relaxed against one another Silver groaned, licking Riyo's throat gently, "Fuck, that was..."

"Yes, yes it was."

Riyo let his head slump back and hit the pillows, regaining his breath as he just relaxed, stroking Silver's back and nape. He felt the slender fox snuggle down into him, gripping his upper body gently. The feline's cock was still wedged within the slender fox, and Silver showed no signs of moving or wanting it removed, so they stayed joined at the pelvis, resting against one another and basking in the warm tingle of their shared afterglow. Riyo rubbed the slender fox's nape, feeling his agile tongue licking his throat and chin, smiling gently, "Affectionate little thing, aren't you?"

"Well, you're not telling me to get off you, prying your cock out of my ass or tossing money at me."

"Well, I'm comfortable."

"I'm not too heavy?"

Silver perked his ears as he shifted against the warm, lean feline, hearing and feeling him chuckle, the movement making him bounce against Riyo's chest and belly softly, "No, no. With as skinny as you are, you're not that heavy for me. So you can stay put."

Riyo rubbed his nose, the scent of musk and freshly spilled semen still laying thick and heavy around the bed, "I think we should both bathe again though, don't want to wake up stuck to the bed sheets."

Silver seemed pleased at the prospect, "I get to sleep with you, after fucking you. Sounds like fun."

"I imagine you didn't often get to indulge with that part of fucking."

"Not unless they just fell asleep right after cumming."

Riyo nodded, running his fingers through the younger male's sweat dampened hair, kissing the side of his muzzle as Silver uttered comfortable, contented sounds. He smiled idly to himself, patting the slender fox on the rump as he stretched, gingerly letting his heavy length slip from Silver with a wet pop. The younger male uttered a tiny sound, rubbing his backside as he glanced at the feline with his bright eyes, "I think your balls bruised my ass..."

The lanky feline eased onto the edge of the bed, smirking as he reached down and poured himself another shot of the sweet liquor, passing his glass to the fox as Silver tried to scoot to the side of the bed without letting his backside drag across the sheets. He uttered a squeak as he slipped on the edge of the bed and nearly toppled to the carpeting, feeling Riyo's strong arms intercept him before he fell any farther, "Whoops, gotcha!"

"T-t-hanks, I'm a bit wobbly."

Silver leaned into the rangy feline's strong form, feeling himself supported beneath the arms and against Riyo's hip. He smiled up at the taller male, shrugging softly as Riyo steadied himself and looked down, "You want me to carry your ass or something?"

"No one's ever picked me up except to roll me over and yank my ass into the air."

Silver giggled softly, shifting his weight against the lean feline who smirked and bent, catching him behind the knees and around his upper torso, lifting easily with an exhale and a grunt. The fox shrilled, feeling himself leave the deck, his feet kicking in space as he tried to arch and clasped an arm around the feline's neck. Riyo grunted, nipping the squirming fox on the shoulder, "Relax damn it! Zeft Wept, quit wriggling or I'll drop your little ass!"

The feline growled as the slender fox immediately went limp, rolling his eye to the ceiling before patting the younger male on the ass, "I wouldn't drop you, just don't wriggle..."

"Sorry."

Silver eased his grip around the feline's shoulders, relaxing into his arms, feeling the strong cabling in Riyo's arms as he was carried gently, "I'm not too heavy?"

"Well, I wouldn't want to do a circuit race around the cargo bay with you over my shoulder but for now you're not too heavy."

"Good, I think I like it up here."

Silver grinned, his head almost reaching eye-level with the feline, making Riyo smirk as the slender fox kissed him, "I think this will be the start of a wonderful friendship! I've never really had any friends before."

"You normally fuck your friends? And don't forget, technically I'm your boss cabin fox."

"So when do I get paid?"

"You just were."

"No fair!"

"Oh shut up before I reconsider dropping you again..."

Silver giggled all the way as Riyo carried him to the doorway, watching as the doors closed on the cabin behind him, snuggling against the feline's chest and biting his shoulder, "Quick, to the shower!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Zeft Wept, what have I gotten myself into?"

"Guess you'll find out eventually, won't we?"

Fin