Xenofestation 1-05: A Prayer Before Bed

By Paragonas Vaunt

Author's Note: This story is now also available as part of the omnibus collection Xenofestation Sequence 1 - Principia Germinis.

Tali Slater is in trouble. A gambler whose luck seems to have run out since she fell in with The Syndicate, she is falling deeper into the red. Now her latest plan to get debt-free - a night with the mysterious Eddie - may prove a gamble too far.

Meanwhile, in the Xenoplantation Programme, Amber Codrington finds that time to recover from her first implantation may be shorter than she expected...

Twelve women. Sixty aliens. One purpose. Xenofestation 1-05 - A Prayer Before Bed is the fifth episode of a series of darkly erotic sci-fi adventures of oviposition and alien implantation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paragonas Vaunt
• Release date: Jun 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005912956

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Xenofestation 1-05

~A Prayer Before Bed~

Paragonas Vaunt

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This is a work of erotic science fiction, and a very rude one at that. Intended exclusively for an adult audience, it graphically depicts scenes of a highly sexual nature and situations of peril/horror.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Table of Contents

Entry 1-05/A – The Stranger in the Mirror

Entry 1-05/B – A Prayer Before Bed

Entry 1-05/C – The Laydown

Entry 1-05/D – All-In

Entry 1-05/E – Full Tilt

Entry 1-05/F – Cash Out

Coming Next…

Note From The Author…

Hatching Now…

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Entry 1-05/A - The Stranger in the Mirror

Tucson, Arizona, Federation of Mid-American States, Terra

Tali Slater picked up her make-up applicator and stared at the stranger in the mirror.

She knew it was nervousness that was making her check her preparations for the umpteenth time. But better that, she decided, than turn to drink or pharmaceuticals.

There was no time to go out and find a game, the way she’d normally do to calm her nerves. So she checked her make-up one more time, tweaked her blusher to a fractionally lighter shade, adjusted her eyelashes infinitesimally, and thinned her lipstick just a touch.

Then she walked out of the bathroom, leaving the woman in the mirror behind.

Her and her accusatory stare.

The suite was huge and opulently appointed, the bed alone probably as big as her entire hab-cube, broad and well-sprung and draped in real satin. Tali wasn’t sure whether the overt luxury of the setting was reassuring, because it showed how important this evening was to the people who had arranged it. Or disquieting, because it showed how important this evening was to the people who had arranged it.

So she perched herself on the end of the bed, and waited edgily for Eddie to arrive and answer that question.

After a while, she glanced at the minibar, and the pharm dispenser.

Usually she preferred to keep a clear head, keep her wits about her. But maybe a bit of fuzz would help this evening pass a bit more smoothly. It wasn’t as if she’d be counting cards or anything complex.

She couldn’t decide, so she reached up to her necklace, to the clasp holding a genuine vintage silver dollar coin on the end of its sterling silver chain. A twist of the fitting and the coin dropped heavy into her hand.

Heads, stay clean. Tails, have a pinch.

She spun the coin, caught it expertly.

Stay clean it was, then.

Tali hung the coin back on its chain and went back into the bathroom to look in the mirror again.

It was quiet in there, quieter than her own cube would have been because it didn’t have the compulsory ad screen. There was a screen over the bed here, but she’d been able to turn that off.

That was how luxurious the suite was.

She stared at the stranger in the mirror again.

At the woman who’d watched her agree to do this thing. In this luxury hotel suite.

Tonight.

Was she really going to go through with this?

Fuck Eddie?

That was all she had to do.

Fuck Eddie and clear her marker.

Trade her pink for her red.

She could do it no problem, she told herself. After all, it wasn’t like she hadn’t done this sort of thing before, or something near enough to it that her mother wouldn’t have seen a distinction. In fact it had become something of a habit lately, an easy way to clear a debt, and the debts had seemed to mount up