VECTOR chapter 7

You and CERULEAN have been told to do surgery on a grape bug train, and somehow fate has contrived that you need to do this naked and covered in slime. Which is awkward, when you're finding it this hard to tell her how you feel.

While you're having big old horny relationship talks, more arbitrators have crawled out the woodwork. The partisans are stalling, heavily outgunned. And the pilot has her own ambitions.