To sell the girls

The garish lights and hover-ads of Halo street painted bizarre pictures on the windshield of the autocab as Liana tried to relax in the back seat, hiding in the shadows. This place hadn't gotten any nicer in the time she'd been away. Same old sleaze.

The autocab pulled up at the curb outside Uru's High House and she pressed her palm against the screen to pay, then swiped her YbMo supermagnet over the meter to erase the transaction so no one would know about the ride. The cab's fault alarm started gabbing but no one paid any attention in a place like this, and in a few steps she was inside, the heels of her boots clicking on the dizzying colors of the living polymer floor.

The place was dark as always, the bubble tubes and polarizers doing weird things to the blinking colored lights. There were some stiffs around nursing their current **** of choice, liquid, solid, or gaseous, but no one she knew and no one who looked like a threat. She nodded at Stil, the bartender. It had been over a year since he'd seen her but his sleepy expression never changed as he cocked his head slightly to tell her Uru was in and was waiting for her. She walked into the back and the door slid open.

Uru sat at his console in the back. the cable he used to plug himself into the big board was dangling loose, his eye-screens flipped up to greet her. When he pushed back from the console she saw he had his cock out, and it was huge.

"What do you think, Liana?" he asked, thrusting his hips forward. On him it looked like a salami on a pretzel. "Pretty fucking nice, huh?"

Her expression didn't change. "Yeah. I'm quaking in my fucking boots, Uru. That must have cost you plenty."

He laughed. "Worth every fucking cent. They don't get any bigger. You want a ride?"

"I just want my money." she said.

He laughed again, laid his dick in his lap and patted it fondly. "So where are they?"

"They're here." she said. "They're with Rynn. Six of them. Earth's finest."

"How'd you get them here?" he asked.

"That's my business."

"No," he said. "I mean, what'd you tell them to get them to come?"

She shrugged. "Shivar needs entertainers. It's their chance to make the big time. Shivar, the galaxy's play land; sure to be discovered by some big time agent here. Especially working at Uru's High House. The usual bullshit" she looked around at the shifting colors of the plastic walls.

He laughed and slapped his hand on the desk. "You're the best, Liana! You knock me out! Here, come on: have a drink and I'll get your money."

He put two glasses on the console and poured some clear liquid into them. He picked up his glass and saluted her, then said, "I suppose they're real? Not the latest model of gynoid?"

"They're real." she said, knocking back the drink. "I guarantee."

"Fine." he said. "You just bring them over and let me have a look, and the money's yours."

"Don't fuck with me Uru. The money, then the girls."

"Other way around, Liana."

They stared at each other for a moment, then she relented.

She took out a sheet of paper and wrote something down on it. "Here's where they are. You have your people pick them up. If I try to bring them over here I'll have a riot on my hands."

He picked up the paper and smiled. "Okay. Fair enough. By the way, you hear about that new stuff they found? That aphro stuff."

"Aphrodisiac?" she asked. "The KY-200? Yeah. What about it? You can't get any yet. No one can. They're not going to release it. It's too potent."

Uru gave her a toothy smile and held up a vial of a blue powder.

"That's it?" she asked. She didn't like the look on his face. "Where'd you get it?"

He nodded. "My business." he said. "But I'd like to ask you: Is it really tasteless like they say?"

"How the hell would I know?" she said, and then her blood went cold. She looked at her empty glass, than at Uru's broad smile.

She reached for the blaster a split second too late. Uru already had his hand on the console button and a bolt of green light slammed her hard into her chair, temporarily disabling her and leaving her all but paralyzed.

Uru laughed. He came around from behind his desk, his grotesquely large cock standing straight out. He came over to Liana and rubbed the head of it across her slack lips.

"Don't worry, Liana. In a few minutes you'll want it. You'll want it real bad.!"