orie Tagerson breathed a sigh of relief as she reached her cabin aboard the orbiting passenger ship. In just a few hours, the ship would leave Terran space. Corie's destination was Outback, a trip that would take only seven days thanks to the convenience of hyperdrive. By itself, Outback had plenty to offer tourists and those seeking a new home; in Corie's case, it was higher education. Like a significant number of her generation, the young woman decided to attend university on another Commonwealth planet. Going to Outback three months early had the extra benefit of permitting some sightseeing and much-needed beach action.
        Though she'd have time to do that, Corie knew she'd be spending a good amount of her time working a part-time job on Outback to earn spending money. Her parents were against her decision to attend university on Outback, but when Corie persisted, they gave in. However, they only agreed to give her just enough money for tuition and room-and-board. Corie's parents told her point-blank that if she wanted nanites, she could very well get a job on Outback to buy them with her own money, not theirs. Like most Terrans, Corie's parents based their opinions on what the media (still prone to sensationalism, even in the 26th century) showed them day after day, and considered Outback to be a hotbed of 'inappropriate behavior' and 'low moral values'. But Corie had done her research, and knew that typical Ockers (native Outback inhabitants) were pleasant to be around and had well-founded sets of morals. It was just that Ockers loved to be expressive; in the case of female Ockers, that expressiveness often showed itself on Outback beaches in the combination of notable breasts and tiny swimsuits.
        Thinking about beaches reminded Corie of something very important. After stowing her clothes and other supplies in the cabin, Corie opened a decorative pencil box she'd brought with her. She smiled when she gazed upon the hypospray. It had been wise of her to wait a week before using the nanite injection she had purchased at Blossoming Bodies; the week of waiting was far more preferable than listening to the haranguing that would've been given her by her parents. During that week of enforced patience, Corie wished she'd had the gumption to use the nanites. Seeing the reaction of her parents as she flaunted her new bosom would've been priceless. The prospect of being cut off from her college money, however, prevented that fantasy from ever becoming reality.
        Inspecting the hypospray, Corie made a sad discovery. When she had returned home that day from Blossoming Bodies, she had placed the hypospray containing her breast-enlarging nanites in a drawer in her bathroom. The hypo was generic in design, with only the Blossoming Bodies logo distinguishing it from the others in the drawer, and in her haste, she had packed the wrong one. Just to be certain, Corie inspected the rest of her luggage. She cursed her bad luck. Now she truly had to work during the summer on Outback. More than for the spending money, Corie wasn't about to be denied her desire to have a larger bosom. She resolved to use the nanites right away next time, and to be a 34H instead of the 34F she had initially planned to become. Besides, she thought with a giggle, I want some compensation for having to wait a bit longer to get my new boobies.

auline Tagerson, Corie's mother, returned home from a full day's work. Like her daughter, Pauline's hair was colored a particularly attractive shade of red. It was natural hair, for no chemicals, or nanites for that matter, had changed the color of a single strand on her head. She prided herself on having hair that most women wanted for themselves, if only for an evening's worth of loveplay. Kenneth, her husband, could vouch for the effect that luscious red hair can have in the bedroom. Her hair more than made up for Pauline's flat chest. There were women who would never change their hair color just for a night of passion. However, there were also women who were more than willing to use breast-enlarging nanites to get that 'extra-special something' for a night of bedroom bingo.
        Like many of her generation, Pauline believed that frivolous use of technology should be avoided. Nanites were a prime example of frivolity; conventional medicine was sufficient to attend to human needs. Besides, nanites seemed so sinister and all-invasive. Once a person started using those little buggers for one thing, then they'd use them for everything. Inflating and deflating body parts didn't appeal to Pauline; it nauseated her.
        Speaking of nausea, Pauline felt the onset of a headache. Finding no aspirin in the first-floor bathroom, Pauline went upstairs to the master bedroom, but found the medicine cabinet in the adjacent bathroom to also be free of aspirin. Before going to a convenience store, though, Pauline decided to check her daughter's bathroom. It wasn't as if Corie would miss any aspirin she'd left behind on her way to Outback. Besides, it was Pauline who bought the aspirin for that bathroom to begin with.
        In moments, Pauline found an aspirin-dispensing hypo in Corie's medicine drawer. The injection was over in an eye blink. Without further thought, Pauline returned the familiar- looking hypo to the drawer and left. Had she taken a better look, she would've seen the Blossoming Bodies logo imprinted on the otherwise plain-looking hypospray.