Dialene — John Van Stry

Dialene's Captain decided to play pirate, and one well placed nuclear torpedo later she finds herself prisoner of the Corporation whose ship they were attempting to raid; all of her friends and her lover now dead. With no corporation to ransom her back she finds herself in the unenviable position of having to work off the debt assigned to her for her part in her Captain's actions. With concerns as to where her true loyalties lie she has but two choices: work in the mines on an airless rock where a small fem like her would not last long, or work in the company bar 'entertaining' those same miners. At least working in the bar beats the alternatives, until one day a very interesting character forcibly inserts himself into her life...A Novella from my Children of Steel universe, Dialene is a foxmorph who until her capture was a highly rated shuttle pilot working a deep space trader for one of the more notorious corporations. Like most of her kind she had no choices in her employer who considered her nothing more than a disposable asset.