" At his nod, she slipped from his arms, and toddled quickly to the bathroom. True to her word, she wasn't gone long, and she slipped back into bed an...d back into Steve's arms as quickly and quietly as she'd left."Do you know when Antonia will be here?" she asked quietly, not wanting to wake Tina. Steve replied in the negative, and equally quietly. "I suspect shortly after breakfast," he continued, "unless she had too interesting a night last night. I know Eta has some kind of time-sharing. She cast her eyes down at her breasts. On the edge of tears, she forced out the words: “J-junior Urinal, ma’am. For the first floor West m-m-men’s room.”There was a brief moment of silence before the room broke out into a frenzy of whoops and hollers and the heaviest laughs she’d heard all morning.“Holy shit,” Jacob said, falling back in his chair and cracking up.“Is this for real?” someone asked.Another man nodded enthusiastically in response. “Hell yeah, it is!”“She was a urinal girl this. But Beatrice knew enough of human sensibility not to take the risk that they would behave so rationally.Beatrice stepped over the rotting corpse of a muntjac deer whose neck had been broken in the recent impact and which the ship hadn't yet recycled. She was sad for the animal's fate, as she was with regards to the death of any biological organism. She was even sadder when she considered their frailty and suffering. Such pitifully short lives despite the best endeavours of human science. Lives. He stood close as she shrugged into the straps, but backed away when he saw that she was managing it all right.She noticed his nostrils dilate, as he took in a strong nose full of air. He was smelling her. She knew how wet she was, and knew that she was giving off a strong sexual musk. Watching him sniffing at her like that, sent a small spark of excitement coursing through her.She reached out and put her arm through his, and started pulling him towards home. Mike looked surprised that she'd.