Jim froze in astonishment. Someone must be falling with him -- if he'd passed them, their voice would have faded into the distance.
Suppressing another feeling of nausea, Jim said "Hello? Is someone there?"
There was a pause, and then the voice sounded again, closer. "Who is this? What are you doing in there?"
Jim flailed around in confusion, and managed to spin around a bit before resuming his former falling posture. "I don't know. What's going on? Who are you, and why are we both falling down this hole??"
"Just a minute."
Suddenly, lights came on. Jim was momentarily blinded; when his eyes cleared, he looked around. He was floating in the middle of what looked like a cargo hold! He realized that he had mistaken weightlessness for continual falling, an easy mistake to make from what he'd heard. Though how the hell he'd gotten from the pit in the meadow to a cargo hold in space, he hadn't a clue.
And here he was with his dick hanging out. At least he hadn't started peeing. This had been one of the strangest days Jim had ever had, or even imagined [don't believe me? check the previous episodes!]. He quickly zipped himself up again, hoping nobody had noticed.
The woman's voice cleared its throat, and Jim managed to start himself spinning slowly again, trying to see her. Eventually she got exasperated with his flounderings, grabbed his flailing hand and brought him over to a handhold. Jim finally got a good look at her.
The woman -- make that girl -- seemed to be about Jim's age. She had frizzy blonde hair that reached past her shoulders, and was floating in all directions in the weightlessness. Her face was pretty, not supermodel but good enough. She was wearing an ordinary-looking astronaut's flight suit -- ordinary except for the fact that it was stretched tightly across a pair of DD breasts. Jim noticed with wonder that in the weightlessness, her slightest movement caused her breasts to bounce around enticingly.
She reached out and pushed Jim's head back up, so that he was looking in her eyes again. "Let me guess -- you've never been in space before, have you."
"Well, no. Can't you turn the gravity back on or something?" Jim was still feeling a little sick, though he was getting used to it.
She snorted. "This is real life, not Star Trek. This is as much gravity as you're going to get for the next two weeks. As soon as our next supply ship comes up from Earth, you'll be sent back downside. How'd you manage to stow away on the last one, anyway?"
"Look, as far as I'm concerned, this is all a dream. The last thing I remember is running through a field, then falling into a pit. Next thing I knew, I was here."
"Riiiight. I'd better take you to the Mission Commander. Wait -- what was that??"
Tue Jun 8 19:51:16 1999
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