Orbit of Desire

Characters

• Hazel Coyle — A resident of the outer rim space station who works as a hostess, secretly studying for a degree in pleasure house management to eventually take over the business. She balances her professional aspirations with a hedonistic life in the station's underground clubs, utilizing chemical enhancements to
• Jelani Adebayo — A high-end supplier of chemical stimulants and synaptic enhancers who operates out of the station's deepest, unmonitored sectors. He manages the underground sex clubs that Tommie and Reiley frequent, holding them in his debt through exclusive access to restricted substances.
• Tommie — A technician specializing in automated construction droids for the station's expansion. He is deeply integrated into the station's infrastructure, using his access to maintain the couple's lifestyle and facilitate their shared participation in underground chemsex clubs, remaining a devoted, faithful
• Naomi Fisk — A small, compact woman who trained Hazel on the intake desk and disappeared from the roster two years before, logged as transferred to an inner-ring private contract. She now walks the volume barefoot in a grey underlayer with a black band set into her skull and a silver seam running up her forearm
• Wendell — A man held behind one of the occupied doors in Utility Volume 11-7, speaking through a speaker in corridor 11-7-C. His voice is deeper and older than the woman in 11-7-B, and he refuses to let her beg or use his name.
• The Booted Man — A thick-shouldered man in his mid-fifties in a dark coat with no crest, no cuff light, and no data on his wrist, logged by the desk scanner as nothing. He came to the intake desk at 0740, addressed Hazel as 'the Coyle,' and told her to tell Adebayo the reading has moved.
• Tirrell — A man whose crew and berths Jelani referenced when demanding the manifest line be redrawn and warning that his men not be sent through the volume again. Tommie knows the name from Jelani's earlier questions about dock logs.
• Priya — A junior hostess who works the intake desk alongside Hazel and was trained by her. She has logged a stomach complaint four times that month.
• Curtis Vale — A four-year veteran of the droid pen on Dock Tier Seven who taught Tommie the manual override pin trick and had eaten dinner at Tommie and Hazel's apartment. He escorts intake subjects down the west conveyor spur and logs them to Volume 11-7.