A Stardrifter Short-Short Story

Opal City Station is a medium size ring-shaped space colony in  the Alliance. Though there's nothing all that special about it, OCS is  home to hard workers, layabouts, dreamers, lowlifes, villains, and  heroes. Just regular people, living a life in outer space.

Niku is a teenager boy with an eye for the ladies. When he finally sees one that makes his heart stop, he learns a quick lesson about what it means to really want something, and what it sometimes takes to be worthy of it.