{"id":9547,"date":"2014-09-10T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=9547"},"modified":"2014-09-10T02:39:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T08:39:27","slug":"strangers-in-flight-excerpt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/strangers-in-flight-excerpt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangers in Flight &#8212; excerpt 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\">The shower door opened and she stepped out, holding weakly onto the wall for support. The room outside was narrow and windowless, with walls and floors that were immaculately white. There were a number of gray stalls lining the wall to her right, with a wide sink facility in the far corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Two men stood by the entrance to the shower. Their bodies were covered in blankets, leaving only their hands and faces bare. It puzzled her, since the air in the room was not particularly cool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cUh, hello,\u201d she said. She wasn\u2019t sure what else to say, so she smiled and waited for them to respond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Neither of them spoke to her, but the younger one handed her a towel. She took it gratefully and wrapped it around her hair. From the puzzled looks on the young man\u2019s face, she gathered that wasn\u2019t what he had expected of her. She looked at him closer and realized that he wasn\u2019t covered in blankets at all, but some sort of skin covering that was fitted to his body. The same was true of the older man. His second skin was long and white, a bit like one of her father\u2019s aprons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Back home, no one had covered their bodies unless an unusual circumstance required it. Her father would sometimes wear protective gear while at work, but when he was home in the apartment, he went bare just like everyone else. She\u2019d always been taught that the body was sacred, the highest pinnacle of creation. Just as children were born pure and shameless, so too were they to honor their bodies and not be ashamed of them. But these men\u2014with their blanket-like skin coverings that served no obvious purpose\u2014seemed to believe otherwise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">==========<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a title=\"Strangers in Flight \u2014 excerpt 1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=9538\">Excerpt 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Strangers in Flight \u2014 excerpt 2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=9545\">Excerpt 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">==========<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><div id=\"mbt-container\"><div itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Book\" id=\"post-9535\" class=\"mbt-book mbt-book-excerpt\"><div class=\"mbt-book-images mbt-book-images-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/books\/strangers-in-flight-book-iii\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Strangers in Flight\" class=\" mbt-book-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SSF-III-cover-266x400.jpg\"><\/a><\/div><div class=\"mbt-book-right\"><h2 class=\"mbt-book-title\" itemprop=\"name\">\r\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/books\/strangers-in-flight-book-iii\/\">Strangers in Flight<\/a>\r\n<\/h2><div class=\"mbt-book-price\"><span><span>$9.99<\/span><\/span><span class=\"mbt-alt-price\"><span class=\"mbt-price-title\">eBook:<\/span> <span><span>$2.99<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><div class=\"mbt-book-meta\">\r\n\t<span class=\"mbt-meta-item mbt-meta-mbt_author\"><span class=\"mbt-meta-title\">Author:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/authors\/joe-vasicek\/\">Joe Vasicek<\/a><\/span><br>\t<span class=\"mbt-meta-item mbt-meta-series\"><span class=\"mbt-meta-title\">Series:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/series\/sons-of-the-starfarers\/\">Sons of the Starfarers<\/a>, Book 3<\/span><br>\t<span class=\"mbt-meta-item mbt-meta-mbt_genre\"><span class=\"mbt-meta-title\">Genres:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/genre\/science-fiction\/\">Science Fiction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/genre\/fic028030\/\">Space Opera<\/a><\/span><br>\t<span class=\"mbt-meta-item mbt-meta-mbt_tag\"><span class=\"mbt-meta-title\">Tag:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/bookstag\/2014-release\/\">2014 Release<\/a><\/span><br><\/div><div itemprop=\"description\" class=\"mbt-book-blurb\">\r\n\t<p>When Reva went into cryosleep, she wasn't prepared to be the sole survivor of a people that history never remembered. 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The room outside was narrow and windowless, with walls and floors that were immaculately white. There were a number of gray stalls lining the wall to her right, with a wide sink facility in the far corner. 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